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Subject:Re: PC => MAC From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- SOUNDY -dot- ML -dot- ORG> Date:Fri, 4 Dec 1998 02:06:04 -0800
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 03:44:42 -0600, Geoffrey A Wood wrote:
>So there I am on my Windows system, designing a multimedia recruitment =
>CD for the college where I work. I burn my first test version and start =
>testing it on various machines. I get to the MAC and fail miserably. =
>Turns out I should have used the MAC/ISO CD-R Protocol--but wait! =
>Adaptec says, "aayep, ya can't get there from here." The Direct CD and =
>Easy CD Creator software do not support cross platform protocols.=20
Make sure you set the software to write a basic ISO-9660 image. It seems
to me that Adaptec's software defaults to using Microsoft's Joliet format
(to support long filenames). ISO-9660 is the defined
lowest-common-denominator standard that should be readable by anything
with a CD-ROM.
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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