----------------------------Original message---------------------------- State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3331 David Y Allen Library-Reference 516 632-7110 25-Mar-1995 02:13pm EST FROM: DYALLEN TO: Remote Addressee ( [log in to unmask] ) Subject: USGS CDs in multi-disk players Michael McDonnel reports that he cannot get his computer to read the GNIS Digital Gazetter on a pioneer 18 disk player. I encountered a similar problem with both the GNIS CD and also the APSRS (Aerial Photography Summary Record System) CD. Both CDs are produced by the U.S.G.S. and use the same proprietary Dataware software. I called NCIC and was refered to Bob Wybraniec at U.S.G.S. (703) 648-5939. He seems to be the resident expert on this software, and he made several suggestions. With my system I only had to make one simple change. Try installing the software on your hard disk and then look for a file called _DW_.CFG. There is a line in this file that reads <Driver = "FS_ISGEN=MSD000"> This line apparently tells the software to look for the CD on the "D>" drive. Use a text editor, such as the one that comes with DOS, to change the line to read: < Driver = "X:\">. Here X is the CD Rome drive on which you will be using the CD. Be sure to include the quotation marks, which are part of the statement, but do not type in the angle brackets, which I used to set off the lines in the configuration file. If this doesn't work, call Bob Wybraniec.