Re: Joliet FS (WAS: SCSI Interface for A2GS)

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

David Chiu <none@nowhere.org> wrote:

> On a somewhat related note, does an FST exist for Micro$oft's Joliet
> extension?

I'll give you one guess.  :-)

> Like it or not, when we burn CDs, it tend to be on PEECEEs, and
> 8.3 supported by ISO9660 just doesn't cut it...

It would be worth seeing whether the High Sierra FST can handle names
that exceed the ISO level 1 restrictions.

On the Mac, when burning an ISO-9660 CD, Toast has the option of
specifying the form to be used for the filenames.  The options are:

- ISO level 1 (8.3, very restricted character set)
- MS-DOS (8.3, more relaxed character set)
- Macintosh filenames (31 characters, Mac 8-bit character set)
- Joliet (separate Joliet directory plus ISO level 1 8.3 for
compatibility).

A PC running Win95, WinNT, etc. is quite happy reading an ISO CD with
Macintosh naming.  The question is whether the IIgs can cope.