HyCD: Hybrid CD-ROM
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HyCD is a CD-ROM format that integrates PC, Macintosh, and UNIX formats
onto a single CD-ROM. HyCD is compliant to all of the existing CD-ROM Standards.
Every feature of the existing computing environment is integrated and preserved.
Therefore, these CD-ROMs are accessible in the native environment of PC,
Macintosh, UNIX, and Windows 95 systems.
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HyCD Integrates:
- PC CD-ROM Format: ISO 9660
- Macintosh CD-ROM Format: HFS
- UNIX CD-ROM Format: ISO 9660 with Rock Ridge Extension
- PC Windows 95 / NT 4.0 Format: Joliet File System
HyCD Preserves All Formats:
HyCD format preserves all the data in the Native environment. All data
is shared, not duplicated.
PC
- File Names in 8.3 format
- Permission
Macintosh
- Resource Fork
- Data Fork
- Finder information
- Icon and Icon position
- Full file names including unprintable characters
UNIX
- Full long file names
- Unlimited directory depth
- Full file and directory permissions
- Symbolic and hard links
- Special files, i.e. block, character, FIFO, PIPE device files
Windows 95 / Windows NT 4.0
- Long File Names up to 64 Unicode characters.
- Permission
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