Re: How can I read long win95 files with linux on cdrom

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From: Thomas Chan
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 00:00

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On 1 Mar 1997 19:40:38 GMT, Andrew Adler <adler@argon> wrote:
>One idea I've just had for burning CDROMs from a DOS machine so that
>long filenames will be readable from Linux:
>If you use the UMSDOS FS, then you get --linux-.--- files at the
>top of each directory that contain the long file name & permission
>information while the filenames for everything else become 8.3.
>Then, you can burn the CD with standard ISO9660 format.
>My question is how to convince linux to mount a ISO9660 cdrom
>and do the UMSDOS name translation.

There's no need to do this--use Rockridge Extensions, which puts a
text file in each directory to map 8.3 filenames to long Unix ones.
(And you can have both meaningful short filenames and long filenames,
unlike UMSDOS which generates meaningful long filenames, but garbage
truncations for the short filename.)

Linux's ISO9660 support includes Rockridge capability already--no need to
force it to do UMSDOS as well.  Rockridge is an established way of doing
things--no need to use UMSDOS, which seems rather Linux-specific.

Thomas Chan
tc31@cornell.edu

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From: tc31@cornell.edu (Thomas Chan)
Subject: Re: How can I read long win95 files with linux on cdrom
Date: 1997/03/01
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