[CLUE-Tech] CD burning

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 02-11 15:50, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:23:23 -0700
> Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at americanisp.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 01-29 11:34, Lynn Danielson wrote:
> > > You can make an image with both Rock Ridge & Joliet extensions, but if
> > > I'm planning to ever use the disc under windows, I just use Joliet. 
> > > If it's strictly Unix/Linux CD then I use Rock Ridge.
> ...
> > Since I already burned the disc with Rock Ridge, does anyone have an
> > idea how he might be able to read Rock Ridge on Windoze? I tried
> > googling for some answers, but didn't come up with anything.
> 
> It seems to me that a long while ago, I was able to read a Rockridge CD on
> Windoze. And that was Win'95. I was just curious, so I tried it. I could
> be mistaken about that.
> 
> > Argh. I thought these problems were ironed out in the past, for some
> > reason. What sort of standards body comes up with 8.3 filenames, anyway?
> > Argh. And why didn't the industry agree on just *one* extension?
> 
> ROTFL. Dream on Alice. ;-)
> 
> You youngsters don't know how good you have it. I've worked on systems
> where the filename limit was 6.3 -- it didn't seem all that bad, when it
> was the only thing you'd ever had available. Oh, and you were restricted
> to uppercase letters and digits (other than the dot seperator).

Youngster. :) Thanks, that just made my day.

I'm old enough to remember some of the fun of wrestling with systems like
VMS and CMS - we had to write tapes on that wonderful piece of stuff at a
job I started at back in 1994. What joy that was...uploading via null modem
cable at 9600 baud, IIRC. 

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