Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.hardware Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!huang-sue.campusview.indiana.edu!user From: cliu@ucs.indiana.edu (Changhsu P. Liu) Subject: Re: Creating an APP that is both MAC and PC-ok. Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.publish.cdrom.hardware Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: huang-sue.campusview.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University References: <2jjbfc$5d1@nwfocus.wa.com> <2k19kh$qp3@nwfocus.wa.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 04:05:20 GMT Lines: 27 On the same subject: I found some CDs created with only one partition where you see both Mac and PC files at the same time. Look at them from a Mac, if it's a Mac file, you can double-click and launch the program. If it's a PC file, you see a generic PC icon. How to create a CD like this on Mac or PC platform? Can I do this by just using ISO 9660 format? Here is a situation. We have Novell network connecting all Macs and PCs. We can copy the PC programs and files to a Mac HD through the network. (I don't know if it's still executable if I copy it back to a PC?) Then, we can have the source disk to create CD-ROM to have both Mac and PC files ready. Make the Mac files stick to ISO 9660 naming system. (Will the Mac programs be able to run when they're in ISO 9660 format?) Create a CD-ROM with ISO 9660. Supposedly, it can be used on both a Mac and a PC. Will this work? How do you create this kind CD on a PC with Mac programs? Will the data fork (forgot the term. type and creator) be kept when it's copied to a PC? Comments are welcome! -- Peter Liu cliu@ucs.indiana.edu