7 Feb
2002
7 Feb
'02
8:59 a.m.
On Feb 7, 15:33, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
ISO9660 CD's are limited to containing filenames
of no more
than 32 characters in length. At least, everytime I try to
burn a CD, those web pages I've saved that have filenames
that are longer result in a dialog box that requires me to
either type an alternate name or accept the munged version
that it creates itself. Doing this en masse would require
quite a bit of attention to detail in the utility program.
The standard says 31 characters, IIRC. You want to use the Rock Ridge
extensions, which allow filenames up to 256 characters (like most UNIX
systems) and also removes some other restrictions, such as not having
subdirectories more than 7 levels below the root, and some of the
restrictions of characters in filenames.
Utilities such as mkisofs do Rock Ridge extensions, Joliet, and translation
tables for DOS.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York