Geraldo Rivera Posted December 25, 2001 Share Posted December 25, 2001 i'm a mac guy, but everyone else i know uses PC. i was just putting some jpgs and mp3s on a cd for my brother, will he be able to use it? what if he makes one for me? it seems like i read somewhere that macs read/write both but PC is PC only. do i need to do anything special? i use toast with a que firewire drive thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew Posted December 25, 2001 Share Posted December 25, 2001 Make it a hybrid disc. I think it's called ISO9660 or something. Toast has a menu selection for it. good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
errol Posted December 26, 2001 Share Posted December 26, 2001 for a few bucks your pc friends can buy macopener. with mac opener it doesn't matter how you write it back on your mac. luck, errol cut-n-clear Mastering and cdr/dvdr copy centre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcohol_ Posted December 26, 2001 Share Posted December 26, 2001 [quote]Originally posted by dmazurek: [b]Make it a hybrid disc. I think it's called ISO9660 or something. Toast has a menu selection for it. good luck.[/b][/quote] dmazurek is right. I do this all the time. I make data cds of images and other files on my Mac using Toast and the ISO 9660 format. Opens up on both Macs and PCs, no problems. JOe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geraldo Rivera Posted December 26, 2001 Author Share Posted December 26, 2001 thanks, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 On the Windows side, choose the long file name option when making an ISO9660 CD, or Windows files will end up getting truncated to 8 characters and the 3-letter suffix. Also, I don't think file names can have spaces - something like "My Hit Song" would need to be written as My_Hit_Song. Finally, when going from Mac to PC, remember that there are certain characters you MUST not use, such as slash (/). I can't recall all of them right now, but I think : is invalid also. These have particular meanings to DOS, so if they're inserted in a file name, the end of western civilization as we know it will be upon us. Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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