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Rock Ridge mixed case filenames

Started by Dave Palmer, 2007.05.25, 00:52:24

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Dave Palmer

Hello,

I think I should know the answer to this, but....

All along I've use lowercase filenamess  in my webpages and  uploaded to the ISP - and all is well.

After untold backups of data, I'm now dealing with filename compatibility  between OS/2 - files backup on CD - same files restored to OS/2 for use on ISP with Unix.

When I need to recover some files from CD the filenames are all converted to uppercase.  This creates a problem..

My searching reveals that RSJ CD writes various sets of filenames - including all upper case and Rock Ridge (Unix compatible mixed case)

Is there a way to read/accept the lowercase filenames?

My way out is to zip everything - which is workable, but sort of useless on graphics files.

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave

DavidG

#1
If you downloaded the latest FM/2 (File Manager 2) 3.05.09 with its utils package and installed both, it is easy to convert to upper, lower, and mixed case using FM/2.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/fm2-3-5-9_fm2utils-1-1.zip

After installing FM/2 and it utilities package, start FM/2.

Select the files you want to rename to lower, or mixed case.

Then in FM/2's menu, select

Files > Commands > Rename to lowercase.

Dave Palmer

David,
Thanks for the feedback.  That is a potentially workable solution.

I do have that version of FM/2 installed. 

Now comes the BUT, there are files which were created and referenced in mixed case. 

I know, that wasn't smart of me to do, but no one has proven that I am smart, so I am stuck with my goofs.

This is when and why I would like to be able to read the correct original file names back. 

What to do next?

The Blue Warper

Have you tried cdrecord?  It has a lot of user-configurable parameters, many of them relating to filenames.  As it comes from the *nix world, I think it's able to handle those filenames combinations even from the OS/2 Side.

Glenn

Quoting from http://www.os2ezine.com/20001116/odin.html

Another way to get full Joliet support is to access your CDROM using the excellent CD-writer software of RSJ (http://www.rsj.de) with the following command

cdattach z: -d g:

where g: stands for the drive letter of your regular CD-ROM and z: for the new drive letter you want to use to access your CD-ROM to get Joliet support.

You can detach the CD-ROM to eject the CD by issuing the command

cdattach z: -no_flush


-Glenn

Dave Palmer

Hello Glenn,

Agggghhhh!  Boy it hurts when I shoot a hole in my foot.   :-[

I never thought to access the CD with the RSJ support as you described.

Why do I make  the simple so complex?  Must be genetic - glad when they find the gene for it.

Thanks again -

Dave