<p>The issue isn't Linux or Windows, or more precisely ext or ntfs. It is ISO 9660, the file system standard for CDs. </p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660</a></p>
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Art Alexion</p>
<p>On Aug 24, 2010 1:28 PM, "Anne Wilson" <<a href="mailto:cannewilson@googlemail.com">cannewilson@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Tuesday 24 Aug 2010 16:08:31 Kevin Krammer wrote:<br>
>> On Tuesday, 2010-08-24, Anne Wilson wrote:<br>>> > On Tuesday 24 Aug 2010 12:03:28 Art Alexion wrote:<br>>> > > On Tuesday 24 August 2010 02:48:58 Anne Wilson wrote:<br>>> > > > If you want to archive, merely as an archive, to be rarely or never<br>
>> > > > accessed, then the mail can simply be copied to the CD - but that's<br>>> > > > much easier if the folders are in maildir format.<br>>> > > <br>>> > > I'm no expert on this, but aren't maildir file names incompatible with<br>
>> > > the ISO format of CDs? If I recall all of this correctly, you would<br>>> > > have to compress/tar the files before writing to CD. Not a good<br>>> > > solution if you need to search or otherwise occasionally access them.<br>
>> > <br>>> > No - why would they be? Just to test, I chose a directory, burned it to<br>>> > a CD using K3b, verified the burn, then opened the disk in the file<br>>> > manager.<br>>> <br>
>> You most likely have the Rock Ridge extension enabled which allows for Unix<br>>> filenames to be stored.<br>>> <br>>> Maildir filenames can contains characters which are not valid for e.g.<br>>> Windows filenames (i.e. maildir filenames can contain colons, which is the<br>
>> drive/path separator on Windows).<br>>> <br>> That sounds likely. Since I use Windows only for two applications that cannot <br>> be used in Linux, I do tend to ignore the needs for that OS.<br>> <br>
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