On 1/22/10 2:02 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote:
On 1/22/10 11:39 AM, "John Musbach"<[email protected]> Spew into the
cybertrough:
Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone could comment on the comparison
between these three file formats: .cdr .dmg. .img ?
IIRC, *.cdr is equivilent to *.iso it's just that in all their wisdom
apple decided to use the *.cdr extension for iso images produced by
disk utility rather than the *.iso standard.
I think you have it the opposite way. *.iso is a PC term and ISO is short
for "International Organization for Standardization" so the PC world is
idiotic in calling it ISO when it should be IOS. And I think *.cdr (cd
recordable) is MUCH more reasonable and intuitive.
That's because the french always have to reverse some letters / words.
In french it's International Standards Organization (with french words
instead but I don't know them but they are close to the above).
IEC is the same way.
I agree about .iso extension. There are lots of things that are ISO so
it doesn't make sense to name anything iso.
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