Clarify handling of option -g and names of files without a Rockridge name

on CDs that otherwise do have Rockridge extensions.
The latter should really be handled differently in the code.
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ws 1997-12-05 16:57:47 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: mount_cd9660.8,v 1.4 1997/09/15 04:27:38 lukem Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mount_cd9660.8,v 1.5 1997/12/05 16:57:47 ws Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993, 1994
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -63,11 +63,18 @@ The options are as follows:
.It Fl e
Enable the use of extended attributes.
.It Fl g
Do not strip version numbers on files.
(By default, if there are files with different version numbers on the disk,
Do not strip version numbers on files and leave the case of the filename
alone.
(By default, uppercase characters are translated to lowercase,
and if there are files with different version numbers on the disk,
only the last one will be listed.)
In either case, files may be opened without explicitly stating a
version number.
.Pp
In either case, files may be opened without giving a
version number, in which case you get the last one, or by explicitly
stating a version number (albeit it's quite difficult to know it, if
you are not using the
.Fl g
option), in which case you get the specified version.
.It Fl o
Options are specified with a
.Fl o
@ -90,9 +97,8 @@ The cd9660 filesystem does not support the original "High Sierra"
POSIX device node mapping is currently not supported.
.Pp
Version numbers are not stripped if Rockridge extensions are in use.
In this case, accessing files that don't have Rockridge names without
version numbers gets the one with the lowest version number and not
the one with the highest.
In this case, you have to use the original name of the file as recorded
on disk, i.e. use uppercase and append the version number to the file.
.Pp
There is no ECMA support.
.Sh HISTORY