On Nov 4, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Frank Rojer wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> First you must tell us your configuration.

This is running on an Intel imac, running 10.6. yes, a bit out of the 
wheelhouse for this list, but I haven't gotten an answer in pother lists yet.

> I suppose you are writing a script with Applescript.

Close enough, it's a perl script running the hdiutil command as a system () 
call.
> And you are using a virtual environment.'

The end Windows environment is a VM, yes.

> Is that correct? I am retired and I had some time helping you.
> 
> Here is a link to convert a zip file to an ISO file readable by mac.
> I found it using google.com.
> I had to register to brainsurface.com to take a look at the article.

Yeah sadly this is not quite what I need.

The faculty member I'm helping is a subscriber to a specific database service. 

The service comes as a standalone bunch of files, with a simple text reader in 
the distribution that lets you browse the database manually.

They used to send CD's with their monthly updates, and another IT person a long 
time ago wrote a MS Access program that extracted the data and consolidated it 
into a database on our server, so it could be used with SAS and other 
statistical programs. It requires a volume at a certain Drive letter to contain 
a specific file structure.

The database service switched to downloadable zip files containing the 
directories that the CD used to contain..ie: not a disk image, just a bunch of 
files.

I need to get those onto a standalone volume that can be mounted at a drive 
letter. I've found a windows utility that will mount an ISO image as (in this 
case) drive G: on the windows side, it works well. 

That's where I've gone to hdiutil to try and make the needed files.

If I burn the .iso file to a disk it opens, and is fine in windows. This is 
baffling to me.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs


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