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Re: msdos-i386 directory...

On Thu, 29 May 1997, Philip Hands wrote:

> Hi Dale,
> 
> > I could be wrong but I always thought the itension of the msdos-*
> > directories is to simplify the download process for users that have
> > Internet access from a DOS machine only. The FTP server should follow the
> > symlinks (and not download the links :-)
> 
> Assuming that this is the case, and that FTP works fine as it is, the problem 
> that you seem to need a solution to is making a CD that a dos user can make 
> use of --- Is that correct ?

While it does impact the usefulness of a CD, and this is my major
interest, I have conserns about the ftp sites as well. I have had folks
using Trumpet Winsock from windows tell me that they could not get the
files from my site that were symbolic links, they only got the link. If
this is a problem at my end, I need to understand what to do. My
impression is that many DOS/Windows ftp clients don't have the facility of
following links. I haven't had an opportunity to test these issues, since
doing so would require setting up a machine and an account, neither of
which do I have resources for at the moment.

> 
> I wrote a (currently messy) patch to mkisofs that allows complex 
> transformations to be performed on the unix names before they get written to 
> the CD as 8.3 names.
> 
> With a bit of luck, this should allow a CD to be produced that contains for 
> example:
> 
>   bo/binary-i386/admin/pcmcia-modules-2.0.29_2.9.5-2.deb
> 
> when mounted using RockRidge, but under DOS shows the same file as:
> 
>   STABLE/BINARY/ADMIN/PCMMD229.DEB
> 
> not because it is linked, but because that is the real iso9660 name that 
> RockRidge allows us to see in the longer form.
> 
> Would this fix your problem ?
> 
As I understand it, DOS doesn't understand RockRidge. I build my CDs with
-R. If DOS understood this then it would already have the kludged up
RockRidge 8.3 file names available.
So, I think the answer is: "No, it will not help.".

Making them "hard" links works everywhere but archives where the
pointed-to file is on another device. It certainly fixes the problem for
the CD image.

I could write a script to change the links but I can't figure out how to
get the name of the "linked to file" from the "name of the link".

Any ideas?

Dwarf
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