Hello Andrew!

 AC>>> on Unix machines. At the moment, CDFS.IFS only supports the ISO
 AC>>> 9660 filesystem, in other words DOS-style 8.3 filenames. When you
 AC>>> think about it, this is a little silly.

 JP>> I don't know where you've got this from... Here's a DIR from my Hobbes
 JP>> CD:-

 AC> I got the idea from using a RockRidge-compliant CD under OS/2. When I
 AC> looked at it under Linux I could see the long filenames in their full
 AC> glory, but under OS/2 they were truncated to 8.3 filenames with a fixed
 AC> period (i.e. a file called ".Emacs" would become
".EMA"). This wasn't
 AC> helpful...

I have a CD - FreeBSD which is in RockRidge format which has filenames
truncated to 8.3, although there are quite a few zero length files and a
number of empty directories. Maybe they completely different under Unix.

 AC> What system does CDFS.IFS use, then?

No idea, sorry.

 AC> Is it an OS/2-proprietary filesystem?
 AC> It would be nice if it accepted the industry standard, from the
 AC> material I
 AC> have seen, the CD duplicators/manufacturers like Toshiba only tend to
 AC> support ISO9660/FAT, HFS (the Apple HD/FD/CD format) and
 AC> ISO9660/RockRidge.

I don't think there is such a thing as ISO9660/FAT...

John

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