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>>>ISO 9660 : 1988 (E) 6.8.1 says that a Directory shall consist
>>>of only one File Section.  Given that limit of 4GB on the size
>>>of any File Section (and thus a Directory) assuming a Directory
>>>Record size of 64 bytes (to make the math easy), it seems to me
>>>a Directory could contain 62,500,000 of those records for
>>>successive File Sections.  Multiply the 62 million Directory
>>>Records in a single Directory by the 4 billion bytes in any
>>>File Section and you have a limit considerably larger than
>>>2 GB.
>>
>>>You need a bigger disc than CDROM, and there may be operating
>>>systems that cannot handle such sizes, but I see no problem
>>>in the ISO 9660 format up to about 2**18 bytes in a file.
>>
>>Looks like you like to make your own standard...

>Sorry, I don't understand that comment.

>If my understanding of ISO 9660 is incorrect, I would like to
>know where I have made an error.

Problems usually occur when people like you start to freely interpret
standards ia a completely other way as other people do.



J�rg

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