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From: pstehlik AT zln DOT cz (Petr Stehlik)
Subject: RE: Unix long filenames on CD under Win?
13 Jul 1998 08:38:26 -0700 :
Message-ID: <000a01bdae22$f7ca3ff0$b9f0d5c2.cygnus.gnu-win32@joy.zln.cz>
References: <199807111423 DOT KAA27328 AT alcove DOT wittsend DOT com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw AT wittsend DOT com>,
"Marcus Brown" <Brown AT sw DOT mke DOT etn DOT com>
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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