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Volker Kuhlmann (kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz) wrote:
: In article <01bc189c$e3b22900$d69f389d@v-jurgex-main>,
: 	"Jurgen Exner" <v-jurgex@microsoft.com> writes:

: >> I've burned a CD using win95 and have a lot of files with long names (
: >> more than 8.3 characters). I tried to read them from linux (istalled
: >> inside a directory on my PC) and what I saw was the long file names are
: >> truncated and there is ~ sign on the file names.

: > Does it is possible to burn a VFAT on a CDROM? If the FS on the CDROM is
: > indeed a VFAT, then mount the CDROM with FS type vfat instead of iso9660.

: No way.

Too simple for M$...

: > If it's iso9660 (what I belive), then you should enable the Rockrigde
: > Extensions when mounting the CDROM with linux.
: > But I have a vague memory about that W95 can't write Rockrigde format, only
: > plain iso9660.

: To store long filenames (among a lot of other things), Linux, as
: do all other *IXes, uses the Rock Ridge extensions.

Does half-OS use it?

: This is a sorta
: standard established way back. Now when Microsoft finally got round
: to supporting long filenames also (congratulations!), being wankers,
: they of course invented their own extension format.

Surprise, surprise, surprise...

: And Microsoft has said (as I have picked up somewhere
: on the net from someone) that they will not support Rock Ridge.

I've seen Linux's etx2-fs ported to OS/2. Perhaps if this and a few
other things like Rock Ridge were ported for Windoze, people would
use them instead of Judas, I mean Juliet (or do I?), this being done
with the goal of making M$ software believe the standards even if
M$ the company doesn't.

This might also make it easier to run Windoze _under_ Linux, or at
least on the same box, because then at least the data partitions
would be compatible and long-named.

: End of story: When making CDs with long filenames, scrap M$ and use
: mkisofs. It works.

Did you really mean to qualify your recommendation that strongly? (-:


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