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Article: 13813 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address@usa.net>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: CD format question
Date: 03 Nov 2002 06:27:58 GMT
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in comp.protocols.kermit.misc i read:
>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.
>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?
yes, but greatly relaxed. iso-9660 allows for filenames of up to 30
characters, it's the lowest common denominators that made 8.3 desireable.
using joerg schilling's excellent mkisofs (part of cdrecord
<http://cdrecord.berlios.de>) i tend to specify `-l -L -R -hide-rr-moved -J
-hide-joliet-trans-tbl -T'. so far i've had no trouble. i've had some
luck with `-U' (which implies `-d -D -N' as well) and without `-T', but i
seem to remember that some system or another hated it so i punted. it may
be worthwhile discussing the matter directly with joerg, as he's almost
certain to have quite a lot of direct and indirect experience.
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