Reading Windoze CD's on Linux/Unix

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:33:05 PDT 2004


On Solaris, i have no clue.  In Linux,  it shold be possible view the long
filename (although i believe that this is a violation of an RFC or three)
as long as he uses the iso9660 module, with Rock-Ridge support (in the
kernel).

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Alan Jackson wrote:

>
> Fellow at work asked me this, and I don't know the answer, offhand.
>
> He receives CD's written on Windoze, and when he reads them on his
> Solaris box, he gets the 8.3 filenames instead of the long Windows
> filenames. How can he recover the long filenames on Unix?
>
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