gregjohn schrieb:
> I want to create a CD with a bunch of files on it.  I want to make it easy for
> the user, regardless of OS, to be able to grab subsets of the files.  If we were
> talking about books, say all the ones by Chris Cason or all the ones about
> povray.
> 
> If there were enough room, an inefficient way, but one guaranteed to work, is to
> create separate directory systems, one by author, one by topic, etc..  Chris'
> hypothetical book on povray would be put into two different directories. Then
> the user could go to the directory of interest and copy everything.
> 
> I'm wondering if there's some technology out there that can do this? Python
> scripts? Windows Shortcuts?

HTML pages for each topic that link to the relevant files?

AFAIK there's also the possibility to have multiple directory entries on 
a CD refer to the same physical sectors, though I guess you'd need 
special tools to accomplish that. I heard tell that various copy 
protection systems use(d) that approach to inflate the content of the 
CD, so that when trying to do a file-by-file copy the resulting data 
would be too voluminous to burn on a CD again.

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