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Subject:	Re: FLASH: one cd for pc and mac?
From:	John Olson
Date:	Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:44:16 +0100

Helen,
The best way is to create a hybrid CDROM which will have both the mac
and pc executables.

There are several PC solutions out there ( i dont know any off the
top of my head)...or if you have a mac.. you can use Toast to create
the hybrid CDROM.

As for the hqx file, it is a compressed file and will not run unless
decompressed. The user will also need a program to decompress the
file.. although most Mac users out there have StuffitExpander ( like
WinZip)..

-John

>Sorry, I know this subject has been beaten to death, but I can't seem to
>find a final answer in my not-quite-allencompassing-database. Client
>wishes to distribute one CD which will autorun on PCs (no problem, I
>include autorun.inf file) and which also has a Mac executable (not
>autorun) and instructions in the readme.txt file for Mac users. Can
>someone tell me:
>
>1) Do I just put the hqx file that I've created in Flash on the CD and
>it will run on a Mac? I thought I remembered someone saying that this
>is like a zip file and won't run without being unstuffed or something.
>
>2) What kind of instructions do I need to put into the readme for Mac
>users? (and is readme.txt the filename a Mac user would be looking for,
>or is there another standard "read this first" filename that's used for
>macs?)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Helen

John J. Olson

Multimedia Specialist
Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center
http://matec.org

phone (480) 517-8664
fax (480) 517-8669

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