From: Joseph Webster (J.Webster@centenary.usyd.edu.AU)
Date: Thu Oct 29 1998 - 18:08:35 EST
The problem here is not the data files, but the fact that the CD is written in Macintosh format. Mac disk format is not normally comprehensible to most other computer systems. One way around this is: - first find a Mac attached to your network that can read the CD. - find some disk space that is accessible to both the Mac and the PC via net. - copy the relevant data file(s) from the CD to that "shared" disk space. - WinMDI can read and analyse these data files directly from the "shared" disk, or another copy can be made on the PC's local disk. A solution I have used for archiving data on Zip disks is to use disks in PC format, and copy the data to them via a Mac. In this way both Macs and PCs can read and analyse the files, provided the PC is recent enough to cope with long filenames. (windows 95/NT/98 etc.) I don't know if some analogue of this method can be worked out for CDs, the problem has only reared it's head here yesterday and I have yet to explore it with our computer guy... Can your Mac system write the CDs in PC format? A far better solution (in my opinion) is to write all data CDs in some universally readable format instead on any limited proprietary format, but I lost that argument some months ago. ;-) Joseph. At 11:00 28/10/98 -0500, Claude Cantin wrote: >Hi all, >I have a client with a 'Windows??' based PC trying to analyze data with the >free version of WINMDI. Unfortunately, he informs me that he can't read >the 600 Meg of data on CD I made form him. All data was converted to >CELLQuest format and is quite legible on my MACs. Anyone one in PC land >help us out? >Thanks, Claude -- Joseph Webster Flow Cytometry Facility Centenary Institute
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