Re: Multi-OS CD Burning Software

[Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>]

Spreadbury, David wrote:
> The Windows port of MakeISO, a UNIX-based utility that has been around
> for a very long time, and it is free.

May not even need it.  Windows or anything else is capable of
burning files and directories to CD/DVD without special tools.

The prior use of HY-CD may be clouding the issue.  Ditch it.

The question of whether you want certain automatic behaviors upon CD
mount is another matter.

The easiest cross-platform solution for giving users a starting
point is to include HTML-based docs, with a top-level file maybe
named `readme.html`.  Everybody's got a browser, and most can figure
out `readme.html`.

To make special accommodation for Windows users, it may be possible
to write an `autorun.inf` that would load `readme.html` in the
system's default browser upon CD mount.  Other systems would ignore it.

>From `readme.html` you could have all manner of additional
browser-based docs, with fancy DHTML behaviors, etc.

LQ


ps.  One thing:  beware the dreaded BOM (byte-order mark) which some
Windows text-editors will embed in text files.  Save everything
UNIX-style.

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