Andrew Libby on 18 Apr 2006 15:22:37 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] burning CD's with long file names


Hi Jeff,

It's been a while, but I seem to recall having luck with either -J or -l on
mkisofs to help here.

Good luck.

Andy


Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

>When I burn CD's, I see long file names, but my Windows and Mac
>friends often don't.  I'm wondering what to incant so that they see
>the world well, too.  Any tips?
>
>I've read the manual for cdrecord many times.  I've tried a few
>options that make sense to me.  It doesn't generally help off
>linux/etc.
>
>I burn CD's thus:
>
>    burn ()
>    {
>	if [ "X$1" = "X" ]; then
>	    burn_path=.;
>	else
>	    burn_path="$*";
>	fi;
>	mkisofs -r $burn_path | cdrecord -v -eject speed=2 dev=/dev/cdrom -data -;
>	unset burn_path
>    }
>
>Thanks.
>
>  
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