Hi Dennis,
two suggestions for the mac side:
1/ try using a drag and drop "typer" like Geoff Osborne's (you'll have to
copy the files from the cd onto a hard disc for this to work)
2/ save the files with a consistent DOS-style suffix (eg .lmd or anything
else fairly unique) and let PC Exchange (part of "File Exchange" under OS
8.5, but it's own control panel before then) map this suffix to CellQuests
creator and type.
You could try ISO9660 with Toast on the mac using the "Use Macintosh
Extensions" option:
I've found that Macs read PC format Zips okay PROVIDED THAT you don't have
too complex a tree structure (putting all files at the root level or one
folder/directory deep hasn't caused any problems here). The thing that
reliably seems to trigger the infinite nested folders and empty system
folder problem is to have two folders with the same name, one inside the
other.
How did the files get onto the Zip discs? - they probably won't have the
creator/type information anyway if you saved them from a DOS machine.
The above presumes that the files are in the right byte order, but have
lost their mac finder information. If they didn't originate from a
Motorola-Based computer (HP or Mac), you'll probably have to convert them
using FACSconvert, FCS Assistant or FlowJo to swap the bytes so that
CellQuest can make sense of them.
Ray
>Re Data Archiving:
>
>I've been converting archived flow cyto files from PC Zip disks to CD using
>a SCSI Yamaha 4x4x16 with Adaptec's Easy CD Creator. The CD's are ISO9660,
>so are read cross platform, but when the CELLQuest files were archived to
>PC Zips, they lost their data & resource stamps. How can I directly convert
>PC files to CELLQuest format, so I can cut single-session CD's?
>
>Also, I wanted to try Toast on this same drive on a Quad 650, but I've just
>learned that the Mac doesn't read PC Zips faithfully. Some "folders" are
>mistaken as System folders with zero files!
>
>
>---> Dennis
>
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