[Info-vax] openvms renaming file

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-05-26 20:06, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> "Steven Schweda" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:7f770e10-2bea-4c16-b4c0-40269ccd6677 at googlegroups.com...
>>> [...] Up thread.
>>
>>    You mean that I need to read all this stuff _and_ remember
>> it?  You ask too much.
>>
>>       https://linux.die.net/man/1/genisoimage
>>
>>    Look for "-iso-level".   ISO 9660 began life as an attempt
>> to be compatible with practically every file system then
>> extant.
> 
> I used rock ridge, then rock ridge and joliet,
> 
> genisoimage -R -J
> 
> Still 8.3 went to VMS. It unzip'd fine and the resulting file from the unzip
> was a normal .pcsi file. As one would expect with VMS.

The 8.3 file name limit is pretty irrelevant in this thread. Why people 
continue discussing it?

>> Hence the VMS version numbers, which everyone now
>> tries to ignore.
> 
> They suck, constantly purging.

If you have an issue with them, just set the limit to 1, and you'll 
never have to purge. Others think they are an essential feature and 
systems without them suck. Different people, different needs and 
opinions. But it's not that you can't get VMS to give you what you like.

   Johnny

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