>I have found the file renaming scheme used by mkisofs to be inadequate for
>certain purposes which come up for me. The current renaming scheme
>does not preserve filename extensions in the event of name conflicts.
>This causes MSWindows, MSDOS and MP3 CD players not to recognize
>certain files of interest. I have modified the renaming scheme in "tree.c"
>in sort_n_finish to preserve the filename extension and instead change
>the rootname of the filename.
>
>I've also sent these diffs to Eric Young. I suppose that someone might
>want to make this a command line option, although I can see no reason
>why one would prefer to have the filename extension not preserved.
>
>I used mkisofs-1.12b5 as the source for these modifications.
Err, I guess you should have checked the latest source ... the file
re-naming code has changed quite a bit since v1.12b5 ...
Get the latest version (part of the cdrecord package) from:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/
BTW. Eric no longer maintains the mkisofs code ...
James Pearson
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