As you wrote, FCS is a cross-platform standard. Unfortunately, file systems are not. If you want to use the data only on a Mac, you should use the "Mac File and Folders" options of the recording software. This keeps the resources correct, so that the Mac will still "know" that your CellQuest documents and the FCS-data belong together. For IBM the Mac file system is pretty useless, unless you have special software that enables you to read the HFS system. There ist some software around capable of doing this. IBM uses the ISO9660 file system. The MAC too can read this. But if you make ISO9660-CDs from MAC data the resource fork will be lost, hence you cannot open the data with CellQuest. The only way to "reaccess" FCS-data is either to use the old "FACSConvert" software and copy them back to the harddisk or to use for instance the program "File Buddy", which unfortunately can also only change things on disk, not on CD. Therefore the best solution would indeed by a hybrid CD, containing both file systems. However, I do not know about the space consumption. Are all data copied twice, leaving only 320 Megs for data? Or is it only an issue of the file system? Answers from Mac-gurus welcome... I do not know whether the resource issue only applies to CellQuest. Are FlowJo or WinList on the MAC able to open any FCS-File from CD, regardless of its resouce fork and creator type? In this case you could just make an ISO9660-CD and use these programs for reanalysis on the MAC and the famous WinMDI on the IBM. Greetings Jens
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