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.name
mkisofs
.fullname
mkisofs
.aminet-dir
disk/cdrom
.type
Disk Tool
.short
Simple ISO-9660 pre-mastering utility.
.description
A pre-mastering program to generate an ISO-9660 filesystem. It takes
a snapshot of a given directory tree, and generates a binary image
which will correspond to an ISO-9660 filesystem when written to a
block device.
It is also capable of generating the System Use Sharing Protocol
records specified by the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol. This is
used to further describe the files in the ISO-9660 filesystem to a
unix host, and provides information such as longer filenames, uid/gid,
posix permissions, and block and character devices.
Each file written to the ISO-9660 filesystem must have a filename in
the 8.3 format (8 characters, period, 3 characters, all upper case),
even if Rock Ridge is in use. This filename is used on systems that
are not able to make use of the Rock Ridge extensions (such as
MS-DOS), and each filename in each directory must be different from
the other filenames in the same directory.
mkisofs generally tries to form correct names by forcing the unix
filename to upper case and truncating as required, but often times
this yields unsatisfactory results when there are cases where the
truncated names are not all unique. mkisofs assigns weightings to
each filename, and if two names that are otherwise the same are found
the name with the lower priority is renamed to have a 3 digit number
as an extension (where the number is guaranteed to be unique). An
example of this would be the files foo.bar and foo.bar.~1~ - the file
foo.bar.~1~ would be written as FOO.000;1 and the file foo.bar would
be written as FOO.BAR;1. "path" is the path of the directory tree to
be copied into the ISO-9660 filesystem.
(AmigaDOS Note: The AmigaDOS port relaxes the above restrictions to
produce ISO-9660 level 2 compatible ISO images)
.version
1.00.5
.date
1994.06.02
.author
Eric Youngdale
Frank Munkert
.distribution
GNU Public License
.email
ericy@gnu.ai.mit.edu
ln_fmu@pki-nbg.philips.de
.source
Includes full source in C.
.docs
mkisofs.guide
README-Amiga
.described-by
Fred Fish (fnf@amigalib.com)