phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com (Phil Hunt) (03/06/91)
HI, We are about to build a CDROM in my company in ISO9660 format so it is readable on a Mac and PC machine.... Problems: How do I store mac files on it? I can do data files, but applications contain a resource fork file and data fork file, how would you store them, they both have the same name! 2) The mac needs a desktop file and you must store in the resource fork of a file icons, type/creator fields, etc. How do you do it? Has anyone succesfully done this for a mac yet? Phil Hunt Ps. Please respond by EMAIL< mu USENET connections have been flakey at best this last month. THANKS! ================================================================== Phil Hunt "Wherever you go, there you are!!!" Digital Equipment Corporation Phone: (508)486-2164 ENET: VAXPHW::PHIL USENET: phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com MOREUSENET: phil%vaxphw.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com EVENMORE: ....!decwrl!dec-vaxphw!phil
blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) (03/07/91)
phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes: >We are about to build a CDROM in my company in ISO9660 format so it is >readable on a Mac and PC machine.... >How do I store mac files on it? I can do data files, but applications >contain a resource fork file and data fork file, how would you store >them, they both have the same name! You use the "associated bit" created for that express purpose. >2) The mac needs a desktop file and you must store in the resource fork >of a file icons, type/creator fields, etc. How do you do it? You don't. There is no desktop file on an ISO 9660 volume; the file system translator fakes out all the desktop calls. All files have the (either document or application) generic icon. Types and creators are handled by use of the system extensions field as allowed by ISO 9660. If no system extensions field exists, the files have type 'TEXT' and creator 'hscd'. I'd recommend getting Apple Technical Report 16, "CD-ROM and the Macintosh Computer" available from the Apple corporate library by sending an email with your address to corp.lib@applelink.apple.com. Another good description is develop magazine volume 1 issue 3, "The Ins and Outs of ISO 9660 and High Sierra." I can also make the tech report available for anonymous ftp, but it's in Fullwrite Professional format, and won't easily convert to other formats. Any ideas how I can make the contents available to the widest possible audience? >Has anyone succesfully done this for a mac yet? Yes, I've seen several such CDs. Optical Media International has sold them for a while. --Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My opinion, not Apple's"