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

date posted 20th April 2001 11:01

Oh. Mis-read the topic when I sent my earlier posting.

If you burn the CD with 'Joliet' names the Mac should understand longer W98
names.
Macs can have names 32 characters long.
Have a poke around in your CD burning software and look for 'Joliet Names'
setting. SHould work
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carla Boulton" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Burning CDs on PC for use on a Mac


> it would be much quicker for you to put on it online for the client to see
>
>
> on 19/4/01 9:21 pm, K. H. Singleton at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> > 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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