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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 17:32:06 -0600
From: jdoull@nbnet.nb.ca
Subject: Re: mkisofs question
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In article <3358A2F3.2FDD@cmr.no>,
Tom Lislegaard <tl@cmr.no> wrote:
>
> I make a lot of CDs with mkisofs for distribution to sun,
> sgi, and hp hosts. (HPUX 10.{10,20}).
> I believe the official story about hpux is that it only supports plain
> iso9660, in particular only uppercase filenames. I thought I'd have to
> live with this, but then I happened to mount a CD made with GEAR on NT
> (a simple 'mount -F cdfs ...') and it actually turns up whith the
> correct filenames!
>
> Obviously there is a way to make a cdfs filesystem thats useable on
> hpux, but can anyone say if this can be accomplished with mkisofs?
>
> -tom
Apparently the iso9660 standard allows filenames up to 32 characters.
Try mkisofs with the -l option to allow long filenames; the CD will not be
compatible with MS-DOS, but I have been able to read them in Win95
JAD.
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