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mkhybrid question



I have a question about how to use mkhybrid to create a CD image that can be used from both Mac OS and Windows.

There's two ways you can do this. One is to make an ISO9660 filesystem that has both the Apple and the Joliet extensions. The other way is to make an ISO9660 filesystem with the Joliet extensions, but that contains a separate Mac HFS filesystem whose filesystem metadata points to the files in the ISO9660 filesystem - a hybrid filesystem.

The disadvantage of the second approach is that the extra filesystem data takes up space, but in my case it won't be a problem.

But in any case, I have this problem - I want to have the original filenames that my wife prepared for the files on the CD preserved. But when I've tried this with mkhybrid before, I got long filenames on Windows, and one can use the Rock Ridge extensions to make it work on Linux too, but under the Mac OS I only saw vanilla ISO9660 8.3 filenames.

Is there something I can do to have the filenames look the same under all these operating systems?

What we're making is a portfolio CD for a friend who is an artist. My wife made a page full of thumbnails, and clicking on a thumbnail takes you to a page with a larger image. For all the hyperlinks to work on any OS the CD is mounted on, we need to preserve the original filenames. I didn't think to ask my wife to keep all the filenames 8.3. In any case, that would have made the CD unattractive to look at in a file manager.

Thanks,

Mike Crawford
crawford@goingware.com
http://www.goingware.com/

    Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.


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