On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Rob Pitt wrote:
> My W95 MC stacks open text files on their CD (ISO 9660) with no problems.
> Now I want to produce a Mac version of my work but MC wont open text files
> on the CD (Mac Files and Folders using Toast 3.5). MC can see them but wont
> open them.
> >From the message box 'open file "D:/readme.txt"' works fine on Windows but
> 'open file "/CDROMname/readme.txt"' wont open on the Mac. In both cases 'if
> there is a file "....." then put "yes"' is successful so the Mac version
> can see the file on the CD but it wont open. Both CDs burnt from the Mac.
> Any ideas?
Check "the result" after it fails: it usually returns a helpful
description of the problem. In your case, I'd guess that the problem
is that the open command defaults to "update" mode, which may fail on
CDROMs because half of "update" is "write". Try "open file x for
read".
Regards,
Scott
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