Re: [WinMac] Writing Mac CD from Windows

Thomas Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:22:26 -0500

>From: Vincent Cayenne <vin@audiophile.com>
>A client wants to burn a CD with their entire web site so that I can
>use it as a base reference in further script development. I tend to
>do development from my Mac. The site is Solaris and NT. The CD-R is
>on an NT box with Easy CD Creator Pro software. The attempts to
>create a CD thus far results in a CD that is readable on a Windows
>9x/NT machine but shows all file & directory names truncated to the
>8.3 naming on my Mac.
>
>How can I read the CD in the "Windows" way? Or how can they write the
>"Mac way"? Renaming the files is not an option.

What you're seeing is the differences in namespace. While the Mac can see
PC disks (CD included) it doesn't do the newer long file names capable with
Win95/98/NT. It still thinks in terms of DOS namespace 8.3 as you've
discovered. Perhaps there's an utility out there to enable the Mac to read
the longer names? Alex? Dan? Anyone?

If the filenames are less then 31 characters (the Mac limit) and you can
put them onto a file server that has a Mac namespace on it (NT's Servics
for Macintosh or Novell's Netware for Macintosh) then from a Mac copy the
files from the server. But to make a true Mac CD you have to make the CD
on a Mac.

IMHO, filenames longer then 31 characters are really too long to be
practical on a web site.

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