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From: korni@shogun.ncp.sietec.de (Jochen Kornitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Reading long filenames from ISO-9660?
Date: 8 Jun 1994 14:48:25 +0200
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rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de (Ralph Babel) writes:

>Jochen Kornitzky wrote:

>> If the CD-ROM actually contains filenames other than
>> "uppercase 8.3" it is not a (pure) ISO 9660 disk.

>This is *WRONG*. The brain-dead 8.3 restriction applies to
>interchange level 1 _only_; level 2 _does_ allow for longer
>names (the same applies to level 3, of course). See section
>10 of the ISO-9660 spec.

Yes, of course (sorry for forgetting level 2, but it isn't really
very common).

>[P.S.: Anyone interested in a more technically oriented
>CD-ROM newsgroup?]

Yupp!
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