On Fri, Jun 06, 1997 at 11:20:50PM +1000, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Does Linux support the new Universal Disc Format (UDF)? > > ISO9660 have several limitations: > File names must be only in capital letters , A - Z. > File names are limited to the DOS 8 + 3 format. > No more than 8 directory levels. > Only legal character besides letters is the under score (_). > > UDF does not have the name and directory restrictions that ISO9660 > imposed. > > How do people deal with the long file name problem in ISO9660?
Rockridge, which Linux has supported since at least 1.2.0 and I expect much much earlier. It supports at least mixed case, long filenames and other punctuation. I doubt 8 directory levels is too much of a limitation, and I don't know if RR fixes it. Unfortunately, support outside Unix machines is poor. OS/2 doesn't have it, Windows95 doesn't have it (has Juliet instead), DOS obviously doesn't have it. But almost all Unix CDs use it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [**** ] 47% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
