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5.1 Introduction

The hardware can be chosen from a variety of jukeboxes for CD-ROMS and writable disks. It does not matter that most of these devices are controlled in different ways.
Most functional differences are invisible for the user, but some properties have an impact on the user interface. For instance, a jukebox lacking a mail slot usually will not change disks itself upon request. For a jukebox controlled via a serial interface, the appropriate serial port has to be specified.
This chapter covers different jukeboxes, their functionality, and the relevant device description files. In case you skipped the set-up chapter, please keep in mind that a lot of time can be saved by adding lines such as "disks=1-5" or "save=*.sav" to the device description files.
This chapter makes use of the common meta characters "?" (any single character) and "*" (any string) to address jukeboxes with similar names.

Note: On top of each of the following pages there is a sample device description file to minimize any problems you may have setting up the jukebox. The samples are set in two columns. Windows NT on the left, UNIX on the right.


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