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echo: os2prog
to: Andrew Clegg
from: Jeff Patten
date: 1995-04-20 20:37:42
subject: IFS

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

   Just a thought -- try including "/n" in your DIRCMD= setting. 
This switch is normally used to display the .longname EA (when available)
on FAT drives, instead of the 8.3 name.  Perhaps it does something similar
on CDs... 

Jeff

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