Hi, John.

-=> John Poltorak spaketh unto Andrew Clegg <=-

 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:-

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

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

Andrew.

// Sig++                           andrew{at}donor2.demon.co.uk

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