Burning CDs on PC for use on a Mac

date posted 19th April 2001 22:22

I have just been seriously embarrassed when I turned up at a client with
their lovely new web site on a CD only to find that they could not read it.

I created everything on a PC but the client is Mac based. When we inserted
the CD in the Mac, it converted all the file names to 8.3 format in
uppercase, truncating the file names and lopping off the L from the .HTML
suffix, rendering my marvellous site to the dustbin.

Can anyone help a very humbled newbie and explain how I burn a CD containing
HTML and JavaScript on a PC using Nero 5.0 software so that my long, very
descriptive (but currently useless) file names can be recognised by my
client's Mac.

Everything that I have read on the Net is conflicting. Some places tell me
that I have to render everything in 8.3 format while Nero itself offers the
option of ISO level 2 format which would appear to offer the option of file
names up to 31 characters long. Is it that simple?

My problem is compounded by the fact that to test various options I have to
drive 40 each way to finds a Mac in which to test the output, so I am
looking for a more economical way of solving my problem than going through
every option in the Neo file format window, one at a time!

Any help will be very humbly appreciated.

Kevin Singleton
[EMAIL REMOVED]
tel: +44 (1505) 872-910