Long names on a CD....

[somepsomewhere]

Hello ,
I am writing a CD using Nero Burning ROM.I want to retain the long names as they are with spaces on the CD.I wrote a CD,but in that CD the long names contained underscores in places of spaces.How do i avoid this ?Which setting should i select/change ? Which ISO setting ... ?

I'm using WinXP Pro and Nero BR 5.0.

Thanks.:)

[Tiburon]

To my knowledge I believe you cannot rename those extended name files on a burnt CD using Nero. I may be wrong, but when trying to rename the Volume Label for a CD, it did know allow me to include spaces, only underscores if I wanted to separate words. So I believe this also applies to the folders.

[Vernon Frazee]

ISO 9660 is a standard CD-ROM file system that allows you to read the CD whether you're on a MS-DOS, Windows, Unix, Linux or Macintosh platform. So, ISO 9660 is sort of like a universal standard among CD-ROM file systems. If your CD-ROM is ISO 9660 compatible, it will most likely work with all CD-ROM drives

There are different levels to this standard: Level 1 - File names are restricted to 8 characters with a 3 character extension, upper case letters, numbers and underscore; maximum depth of directories is 8.

Level 2 - (RockRidge extension) File names may be up to 32 characters.

Level 3 - Allows files to be fragmented (used on CD-Rs written by the software "Direct CD" for Windows, for example).All three of these levels restrict names to upper case letters and underscores ("_"). Some CD mastering applications allow the user to use almost any ASCII character. While this does not strictly conform to the ISO 9660 standard, most operating systems that can read ISO 9660 file systems support the use of most ASCII characters as an extension.

Joliet is an extension of the ISO 9660 standard developed by Microsoft for Windows 95. It allows CDs to be recorded using long filenames (it also allows for using the Unicode international character set). Joliet allows you to use filenames up to 64 characters in length, including spaces and also records the associated DOS standard "8.3" name for each file so that the disc may be read on DOS systems or earlier versions of Windows.

Note: Versions of Windows NT up to 3.51 build 1057 do not read Joliet discs.

More "ISO 9660" and "Joliet" info:

http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~pje/iso9660.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22iso+9660%22+joliet

[somepsomewhere]

Hello Vernon Frazee,
Do you mean that if i enable Joilet then i can write long file names on a CD(with spaces et.al) ?

[Vernon Frazee]

Use ISO 9660+Joliet if available. If you do though, note that most older computers or Laptops with parallel port CD's will not be able to read your CD. They'll get an error message similar to: "This CD-R contains a Joliet image and can only be read by a system capable of reading Joliet images."

[somepsomewhere]

Thanks indeed.

[Vernon Frazee]

You're Welcome! Glad I was able to help. :)