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

date posted 20th April 2001 00:02

cdeverywhere works fine for me, www.cdeverywhere.com only creates the disc
image but you can then use any ROM burning software for the actual creation.
Creates for PC, Mac and even UNIX all on the same CD if you want.

hth

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Radford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Burning CDs on PC for use on a Mac


> 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
>
>
>
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