[PLUG] cd burning software (possibly the another newbie question)

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Eric Pratt wrote:

> I believe there is another CD filesystem that is used.  It is called
> Joliet and it allows for long filenames, spaces, etc...  I think the ISO
> standard for CDs is limited to the 8.3 filename standard.  I am not sure
> what OS's can read the Joliet standard, but I do know that Win9x/NT/2k can
> read it.  I am williang to bet Linux can read that as well.

It's just an extension.

"Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CDROM file system which
allows for long filenames in unicode format..." and a CD icon and maybe a
few other things...

The mkisofs utility used to build CD filesystems can create Joliet
ISO's.  The snippet above is taken from the Linux kernel documentation,
yes Linux can read it (and write it).

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Jeff DeFouw <defouwj@purdue.edu>