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Re: Releasing Slink (was Re: Please add new version of Release-Notes)



On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > It's possible the flags to mkisofs/mkhybrid are removing the Unix x bits,
> > or that your Amiga CD-ROM driver has to have the Amiga-specific Rock Ridge
> > extensions for a file to recognize it as executable.  The former is easily
> > fixable, the latter is impossible to fix without hacking mkhybrid.
> I am using AmiCDFS, the best CD-ROM file system for Amiga AFAIK. But maybe I
> should try it also with the (buggy!) CDFS supplied by amiga.

I'd suspect the mkhybrid flags... use "-r" instead of "-R" on the command
line to keep the execute permissions.

> Ok. Still leaves the question who/how creates the images. I think Ill have a
> look at slink_cd at home. Can I add .info files with that easily? I want to
> have .info files in the root directory of the CD...

Sure, just make sure "*.info" is in slink1.list


Chris
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