mkisofs+cdrecord and Windows compatability

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:43:59AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I use linux... but other people use Windows.  I make backups twice a
> month at home (don't you wish everybody did?) and it's saved me from
> myself on a few occasions.  My linux machine can read the CDs it burns.
> 
>   When I make CDs for other people, WindowsXP can read them.  However,
> XP sees the file names munged to 8.3 format.  What commandline switches
> am I missing?  I move or copy all the files I want burned to the "xfer"
> subdirectory, and run the short script...
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> mkisofs -R xfer | cdrecord -tao -v fs=8m -data dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 -

Add -J (joliet extensions).  That is the MS way to do long filenames on
CDs, ust like rockridge (-R) is the unix way.

mkisofs -R -J should work fine.

Lennart Sorensen
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