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Re: msdos-i386 directory...

On Fri, 30 May 1997, Philip Hands wrote:

> > Well, the simpler solution is to turn the symbolic links into hard links.
> > Thanks to a one line perl program from Guy I can do this easily, and will
> > be providing such links on my Gold CDs. This probably doesn't work for the
> > archive though.
> 
> In the short term, the hard links is almost certainly the way to go.
> 
> I'm sorry to keep returning to this, but there is a question that I've tried 
> to ask both here and on the mkisofs list, and it keeps getting buried in the 
> related issues --- I'll try rephrasing it:
> 
> 
>  What do the files/directories look like when a CD is mounted on a DOS
system ?

They look like the file names when mounted on a linux system but are
truncated by wherever the first '.' apears in the file name.
> 
>  If they are full of meaningless file names, can you imagine a transformation
>  that would result in a usable directory tree (or is this no good because of
>  symbolic links between binary-i386 and binary-all) ?

As I've said before, DOS doesn't recognize RockRidge extensions, so
playing around with the RockRidge part of the CD provides no new
information to DOS.

> 
>  If there is a useful file system hiding behind the 8.3 names, is it worth
>  putting effort into making the short names useful ?
> 
> 
> I don't use DOS, so this doesn't really affect me, but if it were possible to 
> make CD's without the msdos-i386 dirs it seems like the most elegant solution.
> 
> It would probably be another unique feature for Debian to be able to produce 
> CD's that look the way Linux users want them on Linux, and the way DOS users 
> want them on DOS.

Hard links seem to work.

Luck,

Dwarf
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