On Monday, Apr 12, 2004, at 19:04 US/Pacific, Jinx wrote:
> Sorry, I've now asked him those questions. I know it's a newish
> laptop, so possibly an iBook or PowerBook, and optimistically
> assumed that it would be able to read PC-format CDs
>
All the Macs I've owned for quite some time have had no problems
reading "PC format" disks of assorted types (floppy, hard drive)
although usually CDs are done in some standard format that isn't
specific to either macs or PCs, I thought.  If you're using one of the
packet-mode CD utilities (Direct CD?), that may not be supported on a
mac (they tend to be proprietary to the Utility used, at least
sometimes), and there may be problems with CDs that have not had the
session 'closed.'  In some MacOS versions, the PC exchange capability
MIGHT be an extension that was removed or not installed (but like I
said, you wouldn't normally need that for a CD anyway...)

What utility/parameters did you use to burn the CD?

BillW (on a mac)

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