On 11/1/01 6:54 PM, Norton <norton(at)erinet.com> wrote:
> I burned some offline HTML files to a CD.  In IE in Windows the=
 pages 
> appear and link as they should.  I then transferred the CD to=
 an
> iBook and a PowerBook G4, both running OS 9.1.  I can open a=
 single 
> HTML page just fine, but no links work.

This sounds like a cross-platform filesystem issue.  Any time you=
 move 
a web site between volumes that have different OS formats you can=
 see 
broken links because of filesystem incompatibilities such as:

* case-sensitivity (Macs & PCs ignore filename/URL case=
 mismatches but 
they show up as broken links under Linux)
* invalid/truncated file names (moving a PC-formatted ZIP,=
 floppy, or 
CD-ROM drive to a Mac will show only the short, 8.3 DOS names,=
 while 
all of the links stay long)

You didn't mention what filesystem is on the CD-ROM you burned=
 but if 
it was ISO-9660, your filenames will get truncated to an 8.3=
 format, 
perhaps explaining the "PAGE.HTM" / "page.html" mismatch.

When starting on a site it is a good idea to have some coding 
guidelines such as using only lower-case filenames and URLs and=
 keeping 
them short.  If that isn't/wasn't an option, my company makes a 
utility, HTML Rename!, that can clean up most of these problems=
 after 
the fact.  http://www.xlanguage.com/products/rename.htm

Regards,
Terence Parker
Expandable Language -- Efficient Web site repair
http://www.xlanguage.com

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