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| | Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 |
 | | In particular, ISO/IEC 13490 corrects all of the known shortcomings of ISO 9660, including: allowing long filenames, removing the restrictions on the depth of a directory hierarchy, providing for multibyte character sets, providing for Posix attributes, allowing for incremental recording and specifying how multisession is to be used. |
 | | ISO/IEC 13346 and ISO/IEC 13490 are very much interrelated in that they use common specifications for nearly everything that they have in common (of course, there are a few exceptions to make life (more) interesting). |
 | | ISO/IEC 13490 specifies a format and associated system requirements for volume and boot block recognition, volume structure, file structure and record structure for the interchange of information between users of information processing systems using CD-WO (a write-once compact disk medium), hybrid CD-WO (a write-once compact disk with a read-only area) and CD-ROM disks. |
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