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From: mattack@eskimo.com (Matt Ackeret)
Subject: Re: Multiplatform CD's - facts
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 20:08:53 GMT
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In article <Dvw7n4.5DA@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
Stephen van Egmond <svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>I found this on comp.publish.cdrom.software or something like that:
>From: pcrowley@mcs.net (Paul Crowley)                          \-(1)
>If you mean software that lets the same files be read by all systems, 
>this is
>easy - you make the CD with ISO-9660 filenames only and it can be read by
>anything.
>
>However, if you want long UNIX filenames (Rock Ridge), Mac resource forks for
>all the nice icons and Win95 long filenames as well, it isn't going to 
>happen.
>These systems conflict with each other's use of the same directory and they
>are not at all compatible.

Of course not, but you can get over this very easily..  Make separate
partitions for different operating systems.  It's very simple, and will 
work at least "ok"..  (that is, if you are unable to read a particular
partition on a system it will ask you to format or eject it)
-- 
unknown@old.apple.com		Apple II Forever
These opinions are mine, not Apple's.
