[LINK] MS Windows and CD formats

[Marghanita da Cruz]

David Lochrin wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 September 2008 13:43, David Lochrin wrote:
>>>   AudioCD, Video DVD and CDROM/DVDROMs of computer files are three
>>> different formats. ISO-9660 format is an image file format and  used for
>>> distributing operating systems, not individual files.
>> [...]
>>    I use K3B myself; it's included in SuSE Linux and is an excellent piece
>> of software.  But the K3B "New Data CD Project" does create an ISO-9660
>> file system I believe. [...]
> 
>    I meant to add that ISO-9660 has a number of "modes" and "forms" suitable for different types of data.  There's a good article on the subject at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660
> 
Thanks I will study that a bit more...I have encountered  problems writing large
video files to a CDROM. It may even turn out to make it possible to play the
video from the disk directly. I store the files in directories.

My impression of an image file is that it has to be restored, before the files
can be read.

I haven't seen Vista, but I am guessing the way long filenames and other header
information is implemented may be contributing to the  problem. When I write
files with K3B it often asks about truncating names - if I am trying to maximise
my chances of interoperability I stick to the DOS standard 6character.3character
extension.

Marghanita
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