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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 ?
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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