Burning mac .sit files on a pc, can you?

[blk]

i have a bunch of .sit fiels for a friend and i was wondering if on my pc with adaptec easy cd creator can i burn them onto a cd for him to use on his mac is there maybe some kind of utility i need
cause i treid once all ready and theres maybe 11 files and instead of those 11 fiels (not all of them are .sit files) and instead of a data cd i got a audio cd with 27 1 minute long blank no sound files
any ideas

[cplusplus]

you need to make sure the cd is an iso 9006 format when you burn it, this will assure its cross platformness (is that a word?) anyway, at that point all should be well. one point though, any .img files (image files: shrinkwrap, disccopy, etc) will automatically be corrupted once they hit a p.c., even if you do nothing with them. .img is a popular way, next to .sit, to "stuff" a mac file.
later...

[cplusplus]

sorry bout that.. that would be 9660 format, iso 9660...

[blk]

well the way i was going to do it was through adaptec easy cd creator as a data cd and just tell it to burn those .sit files

so i dont knwo if its iso 9660
not that familiar with burning cds normally i just say burn a data cd pick the files hit create cd and in like 18 minute si have a cd

Edited by Johnpv on 03/19/01 07:50:53 PM.

[jack-lemmon]

I use ez cd creator 4.03 and ocassionally burn some mac .sit files on the same disks that hold my pc files and it works fine in the mac. Just use the normal create data cd type in ez cd creator and that should do it for you.

[tito212]

be sure you have set your burner software to ISO 9660, this will alllow for it be be cross-platform friendly

tito

[gmask]

I've done this numerous times with easy cd creator. You should have two options for burning a data cd which are Joliet and Iso 9660. You want to use 9660. The main problem I have had with doing this is to make sure that the files I am burning have suffixes and short names. Since PC files do not have resource forks like Mac files there really is no fear of the file becoming corrupted but if the file is an image format the Mac OS may not beable to recognize which format it is without a file suffix like .jpg

Likewise since on NT and Windows 2000 you can have names longer than 32 characters you may have problems if the files in your .sit archives you've made on the PC once you unarchive them on a Mac. I haven't tested this but I'm guessing that Stuffit expander woul dsimple truncate the names which may mean no file suffixes.

This behaviour will produce files like this:

Was named on the PC myfilewithlongname.000.jpg
Will look like this on the Mac myfile~.jpg

It's safest especially with file sequences to name your files like this:
Seq_0001.JPG when goign from PC to MAC as shorting out this kind of mess with a long file sequence is irritating and time consuming so it's best to play it safe.

g