Re: FN-FORUM Burning CDs on PC for use on a Mac

date posted 19th April 2001 23:03

Wish I could help!
I have Nero on my PC and heave spent many hours trying to do a backup onto
CD with nothing at all to show for it. I reached the conclusion that the
thing was only of use (to me at least) for copying music CDs. The
instructions are abysmal!

Regards
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "K. H. Singleton" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:21 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM Burning CDs on PC for use on a Mac


> 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