Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:53:21 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT dilnet DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: root <vischne AT ibm DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: The future of Djgpp
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Thank you for the info.  Now, if Win95 would read long file names from a
> > CD Rom, we'd be in complete agreement.
> 
> It's not Windows that's at fault, it's whoever produced the CD.  A CD
> that needs to support both short and long file names needs to be
> burned with Joliet extensions to the CD format.  I've seen several CDs
> made that way, and I can report that the long names there were seen by
> Windows 95, Windows NT and DJGPP programs (e.g., `ls') when they run
> on Windows 95.
..

What are these "Joliet extensions?" another Micro$oft "invention"? why
aren't Rock Ridge extensions good enough for them, anyway? or is Rock
Ridge the same thing as Joliet?

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