Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: i18n support for Archiver
Easier to use one of the extended CDROM formats which supports long filenames
A few months ago I went through this with a customer who wanted a copy of the archives on CDROM from their list. The extended filenames work fine under Windows, but not under the MacOS. They have a different format for their extended filenames.
The only common denominator I found was the 8.3 dos filenames.
Mac doesn't support RockRidge extensions? That would suck. Unfortunately a lot of CDROM-burning programs "just assume" you want the Windows-specific Joliet stuff. :( :(
"DM" == Dan Mick dan.mick@sun.com writes:
DM> Mac doesn't support RockRidge extensions? That would suck.
DM> Unfortunately a lot of CDROM-burning programs "just assume"
DM> you want the Windows-specific Joliet stuff. :( :(
It may be that MacOS has trouble with Joliet. That may be limited to just OS9. My wife was sent some image disks for her work some months back that we couldn't read on either Linux or MacOS. At the time we didn't have OSX up so I couldn't check that, but the folks who sent her the disk claimed they could read them on their Windows boxes. I don't have any Windows machines anymore so I couldn't verify that.
So far though, I haven't found a CDROM that I could read on Linux but not MacOS{9,X} or vice versa. Long file names and all.
I personally don't have much sympathy for Windows-only disks, since it's easy enough to burn cross-platform CDROMs. -Barry
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