I really don't have much experiencec with Macs, so I couldn't
tell you what CD formats they can read. But from my experience
with burning CDs, I would recommend using Joliet. Basically,
the wat Joliet works actually does not invalidate the iso9660
8.3 filenames; it just provides alternative long filenames that
a Joliet capable OS uses instead of the 8.3 filenames. If a
Joliet CD is used in an non-Joliet capable OS, it will just
fall back on the 8.3 filenames. I have never actually seen a
Joliet CD in a non Joliet capable OS, but I would guess it may
look a little different than normal, with extra files and such,
but I think it should be completely usable.
Here's a quote from the mkisofs man page about Joliet:
-J Generate Joliet directory records in addition to
regular iso9660 file names. This is primarily use-
ful when the discs are to be used on Windows-NT or
Windows-95 machines. The Joliet filenames are
specified in Unicode and each path component can be
up to 64 Unicode characters long. Note that Joliet
is no standard - CD's that use only Joliet exten-
sions but no standard Rock Ridge extensions may
usually only be used on Microsoft Win32 systems.
Furthermore, the fact that the filenames are lim-
ited to 64 characters and the fact that Joliet uses
the UTF-16 coding for Unicode characters causes
interoperability problems.
Again I want to point out that I basically have no Mac experience,
but as I was reading over the mkisofs man page, I noticed a
section on "HFS Macintosh File Formats" which seems to describe
a Macintosh parallel to Joliet. I really don't know what HFS is,
but it might be something you want to look into if you plan on
making a lot of hybrid CDs. See the man 8 mkisofs page for more
details on HFS or Joliet.
Hope this helps more than it confuses,
Conway S. Smith
--- cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope this isn't too OT -
>
> I'm going to use X-cd-roast on this Debian box to make a CD to
> send to an
> acquaintance who has a Mac (mostly scanned JPG's of photos).
>
> If I understand correctly, I could use long filenames (Joliet) if
> intended
> for a Windoze machine, but for a Mac I can only use 8.3 filenames. > Is that
> correct, or is there any way around that?
>
> Regards
>
> Chris
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