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[Art Alexion]

The issue isn't Linux or Windows, or more precisely ext or ntfs. It is ISO
9660, the file system standard for CDs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660

-- 
Art Alexion

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