Bill wrote

> Michael mentioned "FakeCD" and "Virtual CD-ROM", two programs
> that will let you install Guide on a hard drive. I've heard of
> people doing this, yes... still, I know I'll need a good way to
> handle a two-CD-ROM program without asking people to swap disks all
> the time. So Guide 8 will need options to store one CD-ROM to the
> hard drive, or both, or none. It will have to work if you have
> one CD-ROM drive, or two, or if you just want to run from
> whatever data happens to be stored on the hard drive at the time.

I would like, that you can give Guide the paths of each CD (USNO, Real
Sky, Clementine etc.) or better each data file/path. Using Virtual CD-ROM
you can put as much as 21 virtual CD-ROMs onto your system!

The best way indeed would be, that Guide is seraching all partitions
(=drive letters) for the appropiate CD-ROM without asking the user or
without putting the correct letter into the STARTUP file. I think that
Guide can do this by asking for the CD-ROM name and some files, which can
only be on THIS CD-ROM/partition.

This would also very helpful, if you install a second hard drive, because
Guide doesn't find the CD on D (bceuase the CD is then on E).

Greetings

Jost
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Jost Jahn, Bodenteich, FAX: 0581-31165