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From: freewheelin@phreak.demon.co.uk (Freewheelin' Franklin)
Subject: Re: Rock Ridge question ...
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 14:01:55 GMT
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In article <Copu07.ItH@mv.mv.com> kaikow@standards.com writes:
>In article <2p5npc$3lq@lino.ensta.fr>,
>Frederic Loyer <loyer@lino.ensta.fr> wrote:
>>Yes, on a ISO9660 CD-ROM, every file have a short (8+3) filename.
>
>Filenames are not restricted to 8.3 in ISO 9660.
>

But if you want transportability to IBM PC/DOS, you need to use Level 1
interchange, which *is* restricted to 8.3, and 8 nested directories max.

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