I'm just taking a short TAFE course on developing web pages - unfortunately the TAFE equipment & software is totally PC based. This is not a problem during the classes as I've had to use PCs often at work. The problem has come when trying to transfer the project between TAFE and my home computers (all macs!).
PROBLEM 1 The TAFE PCs don't have zip drives but do have CD readers and floppy drives. My iMac has no floppy but has a superdrive so can burn CDs. The iMac has no problem reading the TAFE CD supplied at the course but I wanted to take various image and text files into TAFE to incorporate into my webpage project. No problem, I thought, I'll burn them onto a CD and since the files were relatively small I used CD session burner (which I'd seen in the August Macworld 'Off the Net' feature). Unfortunately the PC can't read the disc. The TAFE IT guys just say PCs won't read Mac discs! but having used floppys and zip discs back and forth between macs & PCs for years, I would hope that this is not the case. They also tut-tutted when I said the files were in folders and said that I would not be able to see Mac folders & would have to have all the files separate on the disc. Again this is not the case for zips & floppies.. so why would it be for CDs. I know that for the zips and floppies they had to be formatted for PCs and that the macs could read both PC & Mac format but PCs could only read PC format. Having read the session burner info, I suspect that this is the problem it burns the disc in HFS format, which I presume is a Mac format. The TAFE guys say the CD has to be in ISO 9660? which they say is the standard CD computer format. This was the first CD I had ever burned, so I'm a complete novice in this area - I presume that session burner is the wrong program to use but with the built-in apple software the three options seem to be: -Standard (HFS+/ISO 9660) 666.8MB -MP3 CD (ISO 9660) 666.8MB -iTunes (Audio) 79 Min. Since the first two mention ISO 9660 can I presume that a PC will be able to read them (the first for data and the second for MP3 files?) If this is the case then I guess I can transfer info to the TAFE machine - but use up a whole CD each time I have something to transfer. So questions are: 1) Will a CD burned on my iMac in 'Standard (HFS+/ISO 9660) 666.8MB' format be readable on a typical PC. 2) Can I include folders (& folders in folders) or do I have to pull out all the files individually and the re-file them on the PC 3) Is there a freeware/shareware equivalent to session burner that will let me burn in several sessions that handles the PC ISO9660 format PROBLEM 2 THE TAFE course CD includes frontpage express as a free webpage design/HTML editor (and this is what we are using throughout the course) but this is a PC program - is there a similar program I can use on the mac (again, the TAFE guy didn't know about the mac) someone told me that frontpage used to be a mac program also but that it was frozen at a very old version and only revised for windows. TIA Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
