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Seyed (seyed@cse.unsw.EDU.AU) wrote:
: On 12 Feb 1997, Timothy Watson wrote:

: > In article <5dr5bj$6kh@news.mtu.edu> mwmaurer@mtu.edu (Mark W. Maurer)
: > 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. Anyone knows how I can
: > > : get linux to read the file names properly and be able to install the
: > > : softwares from CD instead of copying them into HD and renaming them?
: > 
: > The problem is, can you get Win95 to WRITE long filenames properly.
: > MicroSoft uses a proprietary (not Rock Ridge) extensions for long file
: > names.
: > 
: Yes, at least I can see the long file names (even capital letters) when I
: browse the Cd with win95 explorer.

That's because Windows 95 supports the Joliet format. The
proprietrary Microsoft CD format which supports long file
names. At the moment only Microsoft operating systems (NT
and 95) support Joliet. Despite the existence (for *many*
years) of the Rock Ridge Extensions which are independent
of the operating system and safely extensible.

Ptui on yet another non-standard "MS standard".

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