L.A.Crawshaw@herts.ac.UK wrote:
However my main concern is that it is a Windows 95 version. We do not have Windows 95 yet, nor are likely to in the near future - we are more likely to move toward Windows NT. So even if I add it to stock, there is no machine here which can make use of it!!
Am I correct in reading that this disc is "Win95 only"? If so (the issue hasn't surfaced here yet)
Actually, the disk is a Win-95-NT/Macintosh hybrid, that also works on the two SGI systems we have tried it on. As far as I know, the Java code on the CD runs on all OSs that support Java (even Win 3.1 does nowadays) When we cut the first such CD (ECTOC-1), perhaps half of the total effort was to prepare the Win 3.1 version, since around 12,000 files and rather more hyperlinks all had to be converted to the 8.3 filename convention. Most of the received articles had not followed that convention! Given that our statistics now show that less than 15% of all visits to the conference and our site is by Win 3.1 users, and given our limited resources (basically myself and Chris Leach), we could not justify the effort in producing a Win 3.1 version (by the way, Mac use on our site is around 30%). HOWEVER! One component of ECHET96, namely the CLIC enhanced articles, WAS in 8.3 format, so we included it in a separate partition, and it should be readable on Win 3.1 machines. Finally, I might add that as a Mac user myself, I took great care to ensure it was Mac compatible. However, I rather think that had the entire project been run from a Win site, they would probably not have gone to the trouble. For example, does anyone know of CD-ROM mastering software that runs on Win, and produced Mac HFS partitions? I don't. A Mac/Win CD can only be produced from a Mac as far as I know. Henry Rzepa. +44 171 594 5774 (Office) +44 594 5804 (Fax) ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)