On 08/21/2012 02:54 AM, Ewen wrote:
Steven,It will help a lot if you simply make an .iso version available for download in addition to the .dmg. Given that, users can create a physical CD-ROM on any platform and aren't beholden to a Mac.I am not actually sure if there are any forked files on the disk, which of course would not survive such a move, but I do know that many of the filenames on the disk will not translate to an ISO disk. A UDF disk is more compliant for filenames, so I can prepare one of those, and I assume that all computers that can't handle an HFS disk can at least handle those files.
Ewen,I think you are misunderstanding something: converting that image to .iso does not imply a filesystem translation to ISO9660 - it will remain HFS as it is now. Rather, it's a matter of changing the file header and padding such that a non-Mac CD-ROM burning application can transfer it to media. The resulting media should be identical to what you get by burning the Dmg file. The motivation for the .iso image is NOT to enable mounting the media so much as to make it possible to burn a copy on machines other than a Mac.
I cannot speak for Windows - since I do not use it unless forced to - but Linux has no problem at all mounting the HFS image and accessing files.
Is that making more sense? I can save you the trouble and upload an .iso if you like.
Steve