HyCD: Hybrid CD-ROM

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.

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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