Hi, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > You ruined my day :-)
It was not my fault. Send complaints to the people who convened as "High Sierra Group" in 1986. > Something similar to IBM's kludgiest relic of the early 1960s has appeared > in linux? The unixoid community added System Use Protocol and Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol in the early 1990s in order to get X/Open functionality on top of ISO 9660. That's POSIX with long file names (up to 255 bytes) and paths (up to 1024 bytes) where only 0-byte and '/' have special meanings. A company Who Must Not Be Named introduced Joliet to store names of up to 64 characters in a 16 bit character set (while still ignoring the difference between uppercase and lowercase). Linux mount(8) introduced a character mapping from the uppercase character set of ISO 9660 to lowercase. This mapping also removes the version part of the file names. > The idea that we need version numbers embedded in filenames > involuntarily may be "natural" to somebody. I have never seen any version other than ";1" (and ISOs which simply ignore the specs about file names). It's a non-functional relic, which in Linux can only be uncovered if you suppress Rock Ridge, Joliet, and name mapping during the mount command. > And I've been an IBM mainframe admin and developer too. In the times when a full scale mainframe came with a female discus thrower ? http://www.ibmsystem3.nl/5444/images/5444DISK.jpg Have a nice day :) Thomas
