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<p>Fixed garbled link markup</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>I ([[User:AlainKnaff|Alain K]]) did some prelimary research on Mac Autostart. Seems to be that autostart is possible until Mac OS9 but not with MacOSX.<br /> <br /> The program to use such CD is mkhybrid:<br /> * [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/oir/Docs/mkcdrom/mkhybrid_man.html Documentation]<br /> * [http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/mkhybrid.html Download]<br /> * [ftp://fddisunsite.oit.unc.edu/pub/packages/solaris/freeware/SOURCES/mkhybrid-1.12b5.4.tar.gz Download]<br /> <br /> The program makes an image which is both an ISO filesystem and a MacOS HFS filesystem. Using the &lt;code&gt;-auto&lt;/code&gt; flag, you can designate one file (HTML document?) as an autostart file. The feature is managed by Quicktime (i.e. make sure your Mac has quicktime when trying this out).<br /> <br /> The downside of mkhybrid is that, unlike mkisofs, it is not able to handle hard links in a proper space-saving fashion (only store hard-linked files once).<br /> <br /> Unfortunately, it seems that [http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/autostart&#039;&#039;cd&#039;&#039;qt20.htm the feature is no longer supported under MacOSX]<br /> <br /> I (Patrick P) agree, under OS X there is only a way to make a disk image mount automatically and open a Finder window: [http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021118064425784&amp;query=autostart+cd Mac OSX hints]. Those Finder windows contain the icons to the files, generally with a special design, but not more. With Applescript some more is possible, but: Mac Disk Images would need the Mac filesystem (HFS+) which is not readable by Windows without 3rd party utility.<br /> I don&#039;t think it is important to have Mac OS X Autostart anyway (Mac OS 9 does not matter anymore)<br /> <br /> I suggest we use a Windows or Mac/Windows-hybrid filesystem and just have a Windows Autostart.<br /> ----<br /> AK: A hybrid filesystem is no longer needed with Mac OSX (a week ago, we successfully mounted a plain ISO 9660 CD in a Mac OSX). As our software is OSX only anyways, I&#039;d suggest we don&#039;t bother.<br /> However, I&#039;d like to know more about these special icons:<br /> * do they work on a plain ISO 9660 CD, or do they need HFS?<br /> * how to make them (special .ico files?)?</div>

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