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#Mac qustions

    05-Mar-95 22:21:31
Sb: #157201-#Mac qustions
Fm: Paul Lind 71543,2104
To: krazy images 72724,3111
Actually the problem is the other way around. 🙂 Although Macs have always been able to read ISO 9660 in an emulation mode. (( I was doing it on my MAC 5 years ago)), PC's can not read MAC disks. I'm also under the understanding that Suns can't read MAC HFS disks either. SGIs can read them but doesn't necessarily like them. In the MAC file system, every file has two parts, the data and the reource fork. The data fork contains data for the executable and the resource fork contains the actual executable code. Some files may contain only data and therefore have no executable code. Due to this file implementation, two physical entries are necessary in each file directory, and the two files are then linked by an associated file flag which makes them appear to the user as a single logical file. Although this file system design is supported under ISO9660, PCs and Suns get lost when trying to read forked data. To solve the problem you simply master in a "Mixed Mode" dividing file systems into two areas, MAC and PC. Take Care, Paul