>From: "Michael J. Gourlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>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
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>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.

>Here are the context diffs:


>*** tree.c     Tue Dec 19 14:51:57 2000
>--- orig/tree.c        Sun Mar  7 10:41:19 1999
>***************

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