Hi David.

22-Jan-04 18:20:36, David Drummond wrote to Pascal Schmidt


 DD> Al salaam a'alaykum Pascal

 DD> 22 Jan 04 00:31, Pascal Schmidt wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>>> Err, I don't think there is a Linux-format cdrom, Linux reads
 DD>>> ISO9660 and Joliet just as MS programs do.

 PS>> Well, Joliet doesn't do Unix permissions, for that you need the
 PS>> Rockridge extensions to ISO9660, which Linux and other Unices
 PS>> use. Actually, Rockridge was there before Joliet, but M$ had to
 PS>> roll their own for long filenames instead of using what was there
 PS>> before. Typical of them. ;)

 DD> Ah - I don't believe I've ever seen a Rockridge CD. Do MS OSs read
 DD> it?

ISO-9660 is as the name suggests the major CD-rom format. it gives 8.3
filenames

Rockridge is ISO-9660 compatible but with a trans.tbl file in every
directory with the long filenames and unix file attributes,

Most linux distros use that format. often in combination with joliet.

Joliet is the Windows way of putting long filenames on a CD.
still basically ISO-9660 but I don't know how the extension works

mac cd-roms use HFS which isn't compatible with anything else
except mac hard drives and floppies. (linux can read them if
you compiled HFS support into the kernel or as a module, it can also read
mac hard drives...)

 -=> Bye <=-

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