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- From: max@megatek.com (Max Elliot)
- Subject: Re: ISO 9660 - but not PC readable?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.183225.27616@megatek.com>
- Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
- References: <BznKD9.Cv9@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:32:25 GMT
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- From article <BznKD9.Cv9@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, by shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich):
- > In article <BzKH18.Hur@ipsa.reuter.com> jhs@ipsa.reuter.com (Henri Schueler) writes:
- >>I have some ISO 9660 CDs that are meant for use with non-PCs (e.g. Sun and
- >>Mac). I cannot *read* these on my PC. Can someone explain why?
- >>Am I correct in assuming this is an MSCDEX limitation of some kind --
- >>or does it relate to my CDrom drive, an Hitach 3600.
- >>
-
- Actually, the disks are probably *not* ISO9660 'level-one' compliant.
- This spec requires that the directory entries have names which are
- compatible with DOS filesystems. Any other 'extended' file naming
- conventions are exactly that. 'Extended' ISO9660. At least that is
- my understanding. ISO9660 format does not *prevent* the use of long
- filenames, it just specifies that they should be DOS compatible.
- (it is typically the UNIX filesystems that have trouble with 9660
- because of the semi-colon before the version number etc.)
- Then again, there may be other reasons MSCDEX won't read the FS on
- your disks...
-
- Cheers!
- -Max
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