I have been struggling for over two days now with this.
> My ISO9660 output translation code makes and burns
> an ISO9660 CD (no Joliet, nothing - plainest ISO 8.3),
> which Windows (XP) won't accept...
So you have a problem with Windows.
And why do you post to comp.os.vms ?
If you tried it on VMS you failed to describe the results, and even then you should not be bothering all the _other_ newsgroups !
Obviously my ISO input (which is many years of age)
> does read it as it reads any other CD it has seen.
> I found a utility for Windows (isobuster) which had some
> objections initially; after some fixing of my
> code this thing now just opens the disk and reads
> absolutely everything without reporting any errors at all.
> I am looking at the header (Windows won't accept the disk at all,
> it says the disk file system is damaged) and
> I canot see the reason why my disk is rejected... I have
> put the starting part of the disk (root directory included)
> atformatting link, as it appears starting
> with LBN 0 at the rewritable CD (written in mode 1, 2048
> bytes per block) I am burning to test the whole mess.
> Please, if there is some ISO knowledgeable soul out
> there, have a look - I'll appreciate any hint, right now
> I have run out of ideas and I am going to sleep...