Re: [WinMac] Writing Mac CD from Windows

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:09:50 -0700

Vincent Cayenne 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.
>

The long and short of it is, sadly, no matter the format you use on the CD on
the Windows side, all you see are 8.3 character names. There is no Windows CD
creation software that I know of that will create a Mac HFS disk, or hybrid,
and certainly not Easy CD Creator Pro.

There IS a Unix program which name escapes me right now, that will let you
write Mac HFS, hybrid, and Rockridge extended ISO9660 disk
partitions...something like mkcdfs, mkiocd, something like that...Grrr...I
hate spacing the name of it! It is at the GNU software site. The program comes
up regularly on the LinuxPPC mailing list I'm on.

When 8.6 or OSX rolls around the Finder is supposed to be fully Unicode
compliant, at which point all those Joliet disks you have burned should be
readable with the long filenames.

In theory...

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