On Sunday 10 July 2005 16:39, Gil Weber wrote:
Hey, everyone. I know this might be a really stupid question, but I need to know if I am in the wrong on this matter or if my use of Linux is being unfairly blamed for someone else's problems.
A guy I have to work with asked me to e-mail him some files off a CD I was given. The files are supposed to be PowerPoints that have been imbedded so that they'll play on a Windows machine. But I cannot access the PPT files directly.
The 3 files on the disk have the following names: autorun.inf udfrchk.exe udfrinst.zl
Those are not the files you're looking for. The CD has been written using DirectCD, and those files are UDF drivers for windows. You need to mount the CD using the option -t udf. By default it will get mounted as ISO9660 (i.e. regular cdrom), but that won't work if it's a DirectCD/UDF disc.
Now I'm getting crucified because the recipient (who is a big-time Windoze apologist) says the files won't play on his XP box, and that they were corrupted when touched by my Linux operating system.
Your friend is paranoid and ignorant