Macs <-> PCs with CDRW

[Beckinsale]

Does anybody know how to share data between PCs & Macs using CDRW? My own machine is a PC and the school's a Mac. It has Toast on it. But I want to be able to transfer files I worked at home and at school using something similar to DirectCD. Can Toast do packet writing?

Thanks.

 

[Nothinman]

Packet Writing is evil, atleast all the implementations of it so far. I would just write to them like normal CDRs then blank the disc and write a new session, it's a little more work but it has a much better chance of working.

 

[jemow2]

I don't know the size of the files you are dealing with, but I've used a flash memory card (one of those USB thumbdrive things) for transferring files between my Mac and PC.

 

[WobbleWobble]

There are certain characters in file and folder names that Mac allows but Windows doesn't. It's something to keep in mind.

 

[manly]

Will OS X read Joliet? How about OS9?

 

[Nothinman]

I think OS X does, not sure about OS 9 though.

 

[NEVERwinter]

You should be fine, MacOS can read UDF/ISO CD and Toast is able to burn a UDF/ISO CD too. I do that between my college's macs and my home PC.

 

[NEVERwinter]

dual-post

 

[onelin]

I've gone Windows --> OS 9 via CDRW before...no issues. I'm sure OS X is even more of a sure thing.

 

[Beckinsale]

Thanks I'll probably just burn and reburn CD sessions...

 

[wetcat007]

Ive gone from windows to linux and linux to windows, but never tried on a mac but i would assume it'd work, just dont use floppy's