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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. Anyone knows how I can

> 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.

> 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. 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. I think it's called
Joliot?? Juliet?? Or something like that. There is no driver for Linux as
of yet, as I know. And Microsoft has said (as I have picked up somewhere
on the net from someone) that they will not support Rock Ridge. Now that
is no surprise really - it was the reason in the first place not to be
compatible with someone else, wasn't it?

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

Volker

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Volker Kuhlmann  (kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz)