From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Red Ridge CD format
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Daniel Barker wrote:

> I have written some files to CDs. I am told the system wrote the CDs
> with Red Ridge extensions. I wrote them using a UNIX (IRIX) system.

You probably mean Rock Ridge extensions, I never heard of Red Ridge.

> Under Windows 98, I can see and read all the files but their names are
> simplified to 8.3 format.

I don't think Windows understands the Rock Ridge extensions.  As
usual, Microsoft implemented their own way of supporting long file
names on a CD (it's called Joliet extensions) which is deliberately
incompatible with Rock Ridge.

There are ways to burn a CD in a way that both Rock Ridge and Joliet
data is there, but you say you cannot rewrite the data, so I guess you
are out of luck.  Sorry.

Perhaps you could find some program out there which can access the CD
at a very low level, bypassing the Windows' CDFS layer, and which
supports Rock Ridge.  That could be useful for copying of files to
your hard disk.