Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:46:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Joliet+RockRidge in one CD ? Message-ID: <19980127154651.55028@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199801270514.WAA28530@usr01.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 05:14:30AM %2B0000 References: <19980126185518.34759@lemis.com> <199801270514.WAA28530@usr01.primenet.com>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 05:14:30AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>>> I want to burn a CD-R with long filenames. Is it possible to make >>>> one that could work both under Win95 and Unix ? >>> >>> Should be possible. >>> >>>> I plan to use Adaptec EZCDPro2 to make the ISO image, if that matters. >>> >>> I have no idea about this one. Does it run on FreeBSD? :-) >>> >>> I think there are Joliet patches around for mkisofs, i'm not sure >>> whether they have already been integrated into the latest official >>> version, however. >> >> Can you give us Great Uninformed a pointer to what Joliet is, and how >> it differs from RockRidge? > > Joliet is MS's method of encoding Unicode long file names in tandem with > the short names so that you can do long-name-capable CDROM's on Windows > 95 and NT. > > The Joliet specification is available in the developer area of the MS > FTP site, both as a Word document and as an RTF. > > It is basically compatible, with one real relaxation of the ISO9660 > specification to allow them to encode the fact of a Unicode namespace > in the last session of a CD (this may be the first session, if there > are no other sessions). > > See the spec for more details. > > I can probably do the search and post the URL if you can't figure out > how to work MS's search engine, or if you can find it in devel on > their ftp server by just looking for it in the index file at the > top level directory. Thanks. I wasn't that interested. I think you've told me what I wanted to know. Greg
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