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From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: need CD recording - rock ridge
Date: 31 Aug 1995 09:07:36 GMT
Organization: Tokoro Laboratory, Keio University, Yokohama Japan.
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In article <40r381$t2@palmer.demon.co.uk>
gary@palmer.demon.co.uk writes:

>> We know - Jordan and I ran into this during the 2.0.5 release cycle, which
>> meant a sudden change to the ports structure (it used to have a directory
>> `.all' which had to be changed to `All' I seem to remember).
>> 
>> mkisofs is a real mess, and probably needs to be thrown out and re-written
>> from scratch, but seeing as how that is unlikely in the extreme, I believe
>> that people at Walnut Creek (who have a slight vested interest in making it
>> work) are looking at this...

Moreover, I don't like the filename translation policy of mkisofs. For
example, when there are four files whose names are,

	foo-bar-foo-0.jpg
	foo-bar-foo-1.jpg
	foo-bar-foo-2.jpg
	foo-bar-foo-3.jpg

mkisofs translates these names into,

	foo-bar-.jpg
	foo-bar-.000
	foo-bar-.001
	foo-bar-.002

But I think,

	foo-oo-0.jpg
	foo-oo-1.jpg
	foo-oo-2.jpg
	foo-oo-3.jpg

is far better than the policy of mkisofs, because these names are
suitable for filename-extention-sensitive system such as Windoze 3.x.

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	HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi              E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp
	  WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html
	Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan