Subject: Re: CD Burn

From: "A.S.MCGough" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:43:38 +0000 (GMT)

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Joshua Shriver wrote:

> In the message you posted to the linux listserv you gave the commandline
> for creating a 32character wide ISO image.
> 
> When burning the ISO image will it keep the names correct?
> I tried burning regular files with EZ C Creator ausing ISO 9660 32+3
> and oit still hated the multiple periods.
> 
> Will the ISO image keep the periods?

The iso image does not keep the periods for the normal cd file names,
truncating the name before the second period. However under any filing
system that reads Rock-Ridge extensions you will get the full name, with
as many dots as you want and case preserved.

For example, the cd image for the single file ncurses-1.9.9e.tar.gz, will 
produce the following names:

under 8+3 the file name would be:
NCURSES-.GZ

under 32 the file name would be:
NCURSES-1.9

and under Rock-Ridge the file name would be:
ncurses-1.9.9e.tar.gz

Unfortunatly there doesn't appear to be any way to generate images that
provide full names in all systems.

steve..

> Most archived files are name.tar.gz
> so multiple periods are a necesity.
> 
> Please reply to [email-masked]
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 

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