Re: [MLUG] reading CD-R created in Windows

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Michael wrote:

> Boy I sure do like it when I'm right when I make up answer out of my
> sheer (in)experience. ;) Sun has a problem with long filenames? That
> sounds odd. I would have guessed Windows would have had the problem.
> Does it support TRANS.TBL or whatever that file is that maps short and
> long filenames? Can the Sun read the long filenames on a standard
> Linux distro cd? Just curious. :)


Sun can read long filenames, just not the ones on the CD I burned in Win.
The burner used something called "Joliet" - you can read about that on the
web somewhere, I'm sure, but I can't tell you more because that's all I
know.  Apparently, Solaris can't handle the Joliet method of encoding long
filenames, so when it is confronted with them it reports shorter
(8.3-style) filenames.

Mike

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