Possible bug of mkisofs

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 03:39:52 UTC 2006


On 1/14/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks. I have now a clue: the name of the files are in lowercase
> > > letters. Does it matter? In case it matters, how can I automatically
> > > convert the name of the files to uppercase letters?
> >
> > Yep, case matters.  Check out the mkisofs manpage; there's an
> > "allow-lowercase" option.
>
> From the man page:
>
> «-allow-lowercase
>   This options allows lower case characters to appear in iso9660 filenames.
>  This violates the ISO9660 standard, but it happens to work on some
> systems. Use with caution.»
>
> So, it seems better to convert all names to uppercase, but I do not
> know how to do that automatically, without renaming each file,
> individually.

Conjugating

dir -1
openoffice calc
kwrite

I was able to convert easily all filenames to uppercase, and now
mkisofs works fine.

Paul




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