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RE: Unix long filenames on CD under Win?
- To: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend dot com>, "Marcus Brown" <Brown at sw dot mke dot etn dot com>
- Subject: RE: Unix long filenames on CD under Win?
- From: "Petr Stehlik" <pstehlik at zln dot cz>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 07:56:24 +0200
- Cc: <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
> file names. RockRidge uses the Supplimental Records on the CD in a
> standardized method to provide long file names for objects on the CD.
> Windows 95 / NT do no support RockRidge. They do support Joliet, which
> uses a supplimental catalog for Windows related long file names and
> access control attributes. RockRidge and Joliet (and TRANS.TBL) can
> all co-exist on the same CD since the use different, non-conflicting
> methods to store their information.
this is nice, but unfortunately it does not answer my question how to read
older RockRidge-only CDs under Windows... Isn't there any driver for this,
really? If yes then Windows is the only recent operating system that cannot
read RockRidge. That's sad.
Petr
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