Issue: how to create a cdfs-type filesystem on a hard drive or using LVM
We use HP-UX 10.20 with X-Windows applications (running mwm) on HP 9000/730,743,744,785 workstations.
We use Adobe Acrobat-formatted files for our internal help and program documentation.
We recently "upgraded" from Adobe's AcroExch 3.0 for HP-UX to Adobe's Acroread 4.05 for HP-UX.
Things work great when we open up our PDF files that have been burned to a CD and mounted as a CDFS filesystem.
But we have an issue when we 'cp' our acrobat files from the CD to a local HFS filesystem. We found that acrobat reader 4.05 will not traverse the links we have imbedded in the PDF files when an open document link is clicked on, because the links were 'created' with mixed-case on various systems (Windows, Unix, etc), while the paths and filenames 'cp'd to the HFS filesystem are all in lowercase. Reader issues an error box showing the path/file it cannot find, and that message shows the path/filename as mixed case. We can MANUALLY change the case of the path or filename on the HFS filesystem and get the links within the files to work, but we have literally thousands of files and hundreds of directories that would have to be checked and changed on the HFS filesystem. Not all links in all files have the same "case" mixing, so that rules out creating some script that would do symbolic links. We just do NOT know the case the link actually has until we OPEN the file!
We THOUGHT we could create a CDFS-like filesystem that could be used to cp the files from the mounted CD to disk, but that doesn't work with our HP-UX 10.20 OS. The man page for newfs shows a CDFS option, but it doesn't apper to work (for us). We have contacted the HP response center and they have been no help.
We are mounting the CD-ROM with the cdcase option (as we needed ISO 9660 standard support)
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /cdrom cdfs ro,cdcase
We also used pfs_mount with the same negative results ... all files/paths are displayed in lowercase when you look at the filesystem.
So we can't change how the CD looks, and we can't emulate a cdfs filesystem on HP-UX (yet).
We know the problem is in Adobe Reader 4.05 because the Adobe Acro Exchange that we HAD been using handles the links FINE after copying the files from CD to an HFS filesystem.
So does anyone know how to get around the problem with reader 4.05, by emulating a CDFS filesystem on a locally mount disk or LVM filesystem?
Roger May
713-625-5602
We use HP-UX 10.20 with X-Windows applications (running mwm) on HP 9000/730,743,744,785 workstations.
We use Adobe Acrobat-formatted files for our internal help and program documentation.
We recently "upgraded" from Adobe's AcroExch 3.0 for HP-UX to Adobe's Acroread 4.05 for HP-UX.
Things work great when we open up our PDF files that have been burned to a CD and mounted as a CDFS filesystem.
But we have an issue when we 'cp' our acrobat files from the CD to a local HFS filesystem. We found that acrobat reader 4.05 will not traverse the links we have imbedded in the PDF files when an open document link is clicked on, because the links were 'created' with mixed-case on various systems (Windows, Unix, etc), while the paths and filenames 'cp'd to the HFS filesystem are all in lowercase. Reader issues an error box showing the path/file it cannot find, and that message shows the path/filename as mixed case. We can MANUALLY change the case of the path or filename on the HFS filesystem and get the links within the files to work, but we have literally thousands of files and hundreds of directories that would have to be checked and changed on the HFS filesystem. Not all links in all files have the same "case" mixing, so that rules out creating some script that would do symbolic links. We just do NOT know the case the link actually has until we OPEN the file!
We THOUGHT we could create a CDFS-like filesystem that could be used to cp the files from the mounted CD to disk, but that doesn't work with our HP-UX 10.20 OS. The man page for newfs shows a CDFS option, but it doesn't apper to work (for us). We have contacted the HP response center and they have been no help.
We are mounting the CD-ROM with the cdcase option (as we needed ISO 9660 standard support)
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /cdrom cdfs ro,cdcase
We also used pfs_mount with the same negative results ... all files/paths are displayed in lowercase when you look at the filesystem.
So we can't change how the CD looks, and we can't emulate a cdfs filesystem on HP-UX (yet).
We know the problem is in Adobe Reader 4.05 because the Adobe Acro Exchange that we HAD been using handles the links FINE after copying the files from CD to an HFS filesystem.
So does anyone know how to get around the problem with reader 4.05, by emulating a CDFS filesystem on a locally mount disk or LVM filesystem?
Roger May
713-625-5602