Yeah i have 8.3 disabled in WinCrap, but i was more interested that the CURRENT
kernal sees them, whereas RELEASE does not.  As Frank pointed out, CURRENT ( to
be 1.5) supports them.  Problem is when i go to CURRENT my librairies don't
match my kernal anymore (see earlier message).

XiT


On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> > the most commonly used CD-ROM filesystem format is specified in ISO9660.
> > This defines a filename format of 8.3 (8 for the name, 3 for the extension).
> 
> Sorry, quick nitpick; ISO9660 does _not_ specify 8.3 but rather something
> that is more VMS-like (upper case only, 31 characters with ;version number,
> stuff like that). Most common unix filenames can be made into legal ISO9660
> names by upper-casing them and slapping a ;1 at the end.
> 
> To coddle MeSsyDOS however, many CD burning programs default to 8.3 crunching.
> It can be disabled. My Macintosh NetBSD Install CD was done this way, which
> is rather nice as the MacOS I have does not understand RockRidge!
> 
> Todd Whitesel
> toddpw @ best.com