--- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Wyatt wrote: > > > This works great for a list but the sort is not > > happening when the image is created. I even tried > > without including the path. I'm beginning to > think I > > should append a number to the beginning of the > > filename so it will create the image in the order > I > > want and get it over with. Still, I would like to > > figure out how to use the sort option. > > How are you checking which order the files are in on > the CD? (Are you > using ls -f ?) Do you know your DVD drive isn't > playing the files in > lexical order? > > Have you read README.sort, which is part of the > mkisofs package? > I attached it in case you don't have it. > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > kbobsoft software consulting > http://kbobsoft.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sort the order of file data on the CD > ===================================== > ---------> SNIP! <---------------------
Thanks for the readme Bob, I hadn't read it, just the small part in the man file. The DVD drive is playing in the directory order, I have proved that by inserting a number in front of the filename and letting mkisofs do its thing without a sorting file. The resulting directory for the image (and CD) is in the order I want and the CD plays in the DVD drive in the order I expect. So I have accomplished what I wanted but without a sort_file. I am checking the directory listing with -f or -U. I got the order listing I wanted with -tr and used that order with my numbering of the files. BTW, that happened to be the exact order in the directory I created to hold the files in the first place, as shown with ls -f. I think that is why I had so much trouble understanding why mkisofs was re-arranging the order. I have the results I wanted for now. I can play with this some other time when I have more (spare) time. So the lexical order is the order in which the files are written to the CD and is not necessarily the same as the ISO9660 directory? Then I guess it doesn't really matter in what order the files are written to the CD, as long as the directory is in the order desired (at least for this application). Thanks for your help, Dave __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
