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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:14:43 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@dc.ispro.net>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: why long filenames are gone ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003270013550.18655-100000@dc.ispro.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000321171439.B21349@hades.hell.gr>

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I have an iso image of the disk. He did not copy any files to his hard
drive! Just created a very big image file

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:11:53AM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> 
> > I think my friend made the iso image with a windows program.  I just
> > thought when you make the iso image you get an exact copy of the
> > cdrom. Is not it so?
> 
> Well, it depends on the way the files that are on the original disk are
> copied.  Most cdrom writing programs that I've seen on Windows *do* have
> an option to do 'image copying' or something like that.
> 
> If your friend has copied the "files" of the original disk on his disk
> and then used his program to write the files on the disk produced, then
> he quite probably messed up all the RockRidge information present in the
> original disk :/
> 
> - Giorgos Keramidas
> 



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