scdbackup@gmx.net wrote:
To Bill : The option -allow-leading-dots is documented in the mkisofs -help text. In mkisofs 2.01a34 : -L, -allow-leading-dots OLD Pre-POSIX.1-2001 option - don't use -L In mkisofs 1.12 (of 1998 or so) : -L, -allow-leading-dots Allow iso9660 filenames to start with '.' -allow-leading-dots is documented only in most recent versions of man mkisofs. It does work with my whole collection of mkisofs versions, though.
In the -help but not in the man page (until the absolute latest release). How very Joerg-like... And instead of suggesting this in his note he keeps repeating "read the man page," which of course only helps if you update the minute a new version comes out.
All your other comments are well taken, although I doubt either POSIX or Joerg will pay the slightest attention to user functionality over pedantic definition of a brave new world.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979