Re: [Leica] re: Very OT, Mac/PC

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

I have Adaptec's easy cd software at work.  Its running under Windows NT.  I
recently made a cd with a lot of graphics and video.  The files worked fine
on my other computer, a Mac 8500.  The long file names from NTFS were
another thing.  The Mac (running System 7.5.5) only recognized the 8.3 dos
filename format thus the names were truncated.  I don't know if newer Mac
OSs recognize the NTFS filenames.

Interestingly when I email files between Windows NT or 98 and Mac machines
the filenames come across just fine.

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <ramarren@bayarea.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Cc: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 5:47 PM
Subject: [Leica] re: Very OT, Mac/PC


> There's a significant difference between Mac OS and Windows/DOS native
> volume formats. Mac OS' file system uses a set of plug-ins to allow it to
> read both DOS and ISO-9660 volume formats as well as its own. I don't know
> of any software on the Windows/DOS side that allows Windows to read
> Mac OS native volume formats. Tina's comment that her driver can produce
> both Mac OS and Windows format CDs is interesting ... is the Adaptec
> software running on Mac OS or Windows? I know I can can use Adaptec Toast
> to create both Mac OS and Windows/DOS volume format from a Mac OS
> computer, but I have no Win box to experiment with in the other direction.
>
> You can create a cross-platform compatible volume format by creating an
> ISO-9660 format volume. This is readable on virtually all computers now,
> but you lose the icons and desktop formatting options of Mac OS and
> Windows when you create ISO-9660 volumes.
>
> File formats are another thing: most graphics formats are readable on
> either platform easily. Even the "Mac TIFF" vs "PC TIFF" issue is handled
> sensibly by Photoshop (difference is the byte ordering, Mac OS and Windows
> use reverse byte ordering conventions). JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, etc are all
> readable on either.
>
> Godfrey
>
> >I may be really off base here, so forgive me in advance...I
> >believe that most of the CDs can be read by either Mac or PC..the
> >question isn't the CD, it's the file you put on the CD...If, for
> >instance, you're using TIF files, they have to be Mac format TIF
> >files.....
>
>
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