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From: ian@sq.sq.com (Ian Darwin)
Subject: Re: Rock Ridge question ...
Message-ID: <1994Apr26.171037.14927@sq.sq.com>
Keywords: Rock Ridge
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 17:10:37 GMT
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> I want to make a CD-ROM that can be read on DOS and Unix systems, and I
> would like to make long filenames available for the Unix side of things,
> whilst still having short filenames for DOS, for the same files.
> 
> Can the Rock Ridge format help with this ? I have heard of it but don't
> know much about it. If so. how do I go about setting up the CD ? I intend
> to set up an image of the CD on a dedicated SCSI HD, probably under DOS
> but UNIX is possible if need be. I have never published a CD-ROM before
> so my apologies if the questions seem rather basic ...
Yes, RR can do this. Get a copy of mkisofs-1.0 from an archive
site near you. It will write the "image of the CD" under UNIX,
either onto a raw disk partition or even into a file on disk.
How you get it to the CD-writer isn't part of what mkisofs does
for you, but most writers come w/ software that will do so.