Re: making a CD-ROM

by Kid Stevens <Kidstevens(at)comcast.net>

Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:54:01 -0600
To:	Duane Ruth-Heffelbower <duanerh(at)fresno.edu>, hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
References:	DuaneRuthHeffelbower
	todo: View Thread, Original

The older Mac Oses use 32 character names.  The tilde mark shows when that
is exceeded.  Not 8 character names Macs have used 32 character names since
day one.

Stick to 8s for older windows and DOS.  Use 32 for the rest of the world.

>I've built an intranet site which is a couple of html pages linking to lots
>of .doc, .xls, .pdf and image files. I am now required to dump the whole
>thing onto CD-ROM to be sent all over the country. My test disk works great
>with links in the .doc files to other .doc files and such, so long as I use
>IE6 on a PC which opens everything within the browser. NN4x on a PC instead
>opens the native programs for each document and breaks the link by inserting
>a /temp/into the link. The iMAC I tried adds a tilde to the long file names
>and breaks the links.
>
>It seems to me that going to 8 character names might cure the Mac, but the
>NN 4x issue has got me. The people receiving this disk will have many
>different systems so I have to be broadly compatible. Help!
>___________________________________________________________________
>Duane Ruth-Heffelbower, Webmaster and Distance Education Coordinator
>Fresno Pacific Graduate School
>Fresno Pacific University   www.fresno.edu/grad

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Sincerely,
Kid Stevens

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