R
Rae Benedetto
This is not a problem exactly, but more of a puzzle. Can
anyone tell me WHY the following is true...
I/we work in a multiplatform -- MAC OS9 and Windows NT 4
environment. We created a bunch of Word files (in Windows
NT) with linked Powerpoint slides within the files. Now
these files will open up and the links are OK anywhere, as
long as we duplicate the directory structure. To simplify
matters we put the files in one folder and place that
folder in the root directory of C.
Up until recently we only had CD writers on the Mac. So we
would take the files to a Mac and write them using ISO
9660 compatibility. The files on the Mac-made CDs copy
fine, they open OK but the links DO NOT WORK. (This is
not a file name problem, all the files have short file
names.)
The same files when written to a CD on a PC will copy,
open and the links DO work.
Now what is going on here? Is there something in a
filename one cannot see? Are Macs doing something to that
invisible something? I know they look for an extra bit
somewhere that tells them what kind of file it is, whereas
PCs look at the extension. Is Word looking at that bit
and not recognizing the file?
It doesn't make any sense to me, and I foresee having
difficulty in convincing others in my group we MUST write
these CDs on a PC--without repeating the whole process to
prove it. We are a logical bunch... does anyone have a
logical explanation of WHY this happens?
anyone tell me WHY the following is true...
I/we work in a multiplatform -- MAC OS9 and Windows NT 4
environment. We created a bunch of Word files (in Windows
NT) with linked Powerpoint slides within the files. Now
these files will open up and the links are OK anywhere, as
long as we duplicate the directory structure. To simplify
matters we put the files in one folder and place that
folder in the root directory of C.
Up until recently we only had CD writers on the Mac. So we
would take the files to a Mac and write them using ISO
9660 compatibility. The files on the Mac-made CDs copy
fine, they open OK but the links DO NOT WORK. (This is
not a file name problem, all the files have short file
names.)
The same files when written to a CD on a PC will copy,
open and the links DO work.
Now what is going on here? Is there something in a
filename one cannot see? Are Macs doing something to that
invisible something? I know they look for an extra bit
somewhere that tells them what kind of file it is, whereas
PCs look at the extension. Is Word looking at that bit
and not recognizing the file?
It doesn't make any sense to me, and I foresee having
difficulty in convincing others in my group we MUST write
these CDs on a PC--without repeating the whole process to
prove it. We are a logical bunch... does anyone have a
logical explanation of WHY this happens?