Re: [WinMac] Writing Mac CD from Windows

Changhsu P. Liu(cpl874[at]optimum.com)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:52:08 -0500

At 12:50 AM 2/25/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>
>---------
>"Crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts"
>(Rutherford/Robertson)
>
Your only option is to copy or download the site to a Mac and burn a
ISO9660 CD with allow Mac Names using Toast. CDs created on PC are in
Joliet format (allows long names) that Mac can only read ISO9660 (or DOS?)
portion of it which is 8 dot 3.

I hope Apple can update Mac System to allow longer names than current or at
least be able to read at least 32 character of the names on Joliet CD.

Changhsu Liu
cpl874@optimum.com

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