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Article: 13811 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: CD format question
Date: 2 Nov 2002 13:03:13 -0500
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It's time to make a new C-Kermit CDROM, the first new one since
C-Kermit 7.0. Anybody who saw the previous ones can imagine what
a tough job this is, because of the ISO 9660 8.3 filename restriction.
I'm wondering if, in this day and age, it would be safe to switch to a
more modern format, and if so, which one? It would need to be readable
on all versions of Unix where CDs can be read (I think we can safely
ignore old Unixes with 14-character filename limits), all versions of
VMS that support CDs, and all versions of 32-bit Windows. Maybe also
OS/2 and Macintosh but they're not essential.
Over that range of platforms, are we still stuck with ISO 9660?
- Frank