NEW features of cdrtools-1.11a17:
Please have a look at the German open Source Center BerliOS at www.berlios.de
BerliOS will continue to support free hosting of cryptography projects even
when US laws change and don't allow to host cryptography projects in the USA.
Also look at sourcewell.berlios.de, the first Open Source announcement service
that itself is implemented as Open Source project.
***************** Important news ****************************
For the 'Slottable Source Plugin Module' SSPM Features read README.SSPM
***************** Please Test *********************************
All:
- This release contains a clean up and many new important features...
- VMS script build_all.com now includes astoll.c so compilation
on VMS should work again.
- Many README's cleaned up.
- New macros for max/min values of int*_t in utypes.h
- Limit the different handling of packed bitfields for AIX to AIX CC.
- Unfortunately fragementation of cdrecord has begun.
I noticed this fact recently when people started to ask me
senseless things which turned out to be a result of
a modified cdrtools source that I have not ben aware of.
One main goal of cdrtools is to provide a platform indepenant
user interface which cannot be achieved if people change important
parts os the user interface.
For this reason, I changed the license in hope that this will
help at least to keep the user interface the same on all
platforms and on all distributions.
Please keep in mind that fragmentation in many cases increases
my workload. There is no real reason for a modification,
and (even worse) the people who create modifications do not help
to keep my workload low in order to help me (and Heiko and James)
with the cdrtools project. People should rather contribute to
the project. Cdrtools should be free and actively mantained
in future. With increasing workload, I don't know how to do this.
Libscg:
- Version -> 0.6
- Adding support for the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl() from cdrom.c
Thanks to Alexander Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for the idea and first
code fragments for supporting the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl() from
the cdrom.c kernel driver. Please note that this interface in principle
is completely unneeded but the Linux kernel is just a cluster of
code and does not support planned orthogonal interface systems.
For this reason we need CDROM_SEND_PACKET in order to work around a
bug in the linux kernel that prevents to use PCATA drives because
the kernel panics if you try to put ide-scsi on top of the PCATA
driver.
The code is currently in "status nascendi" but usable with some trade offs.
To use: call e.g.
cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI:
cdrecord -dao -v speed=24 dev=ATAPI:0,0 ....
Be careful! This code is only needed in order to be able to use
PCATA CD-writers on notebooks because there is a severe kernel bug.
Unfortunately, this bug causes the kernel to hang (and force you
to reboot) if you try to call:
cdrecord -scanbus
without the dev=ATAPI: option.
In this case cdrecord will hang infintely and unkillable
in open("/dev/sg1", 2) => you need to reboot :-(
Repeat by: Insert a PCATA CD-Writer in a Sony VAIO notebook and run
cdrecord -scanbus.
Rscsi:
Cdrecord:
- Default usage code is now only 6 lines so the error message
does no longer scroll out the screen. If yu like to get the old
long usage information, call cdrecord -help
- move 'dd' like number conversion stuff into getnum.c
- Allow the /etc/default/cdrecord parsing code to be used by
readcd too (as documented in the man page)
- First support for Plextor's VariRec feature in the PX-W4012
I am not sure about the final user interface.
For now, call e.g. cdrecord speed=4 driveropts=varirec=-1
for all audio CDs. Allowed varirec parameters are -2, -1, 0, 1, 2
VariRec only works at write speed 4.
- Print the actual current write speed in verbose mode.
CD-text Autoring support:
CD-text may now be based on fields found in the *.inf files
created by cdda2wav.
To create a CD with CD-Text based on information from freedb.org
call:
1) cdda2wav -B -v255 -L
2) cdrecord {-dao!-raw96r} -v -useinfo -text *.wav
CD-text TODO:
- Check whether the *.inf files are all from the same CD
and clear some CD-text fields that are only valid if
they relate to one CD only.
- Add some more fields (mainly a dficiency of cdda2wav)
- Support multi language text
- Support character coding other than ISO-9959-1
******************************************************************
NOTE: Read README.cdtext
NOTE: Read README.raw
******************************************************************
Cdda2wav (By Heiko Ei�feldt [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Readcd:
- Now use /etc/default/cdrecord as documented in the man page.
Scgcheck:
Mkisofs (By J�rg Schilling and James Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
- Fixed a minor bug with HFS labels & multi-session
Thanks to James Pearson
TODO:
- read Joliet filenames with multi-session if no TRANS.TBL
or RR is present. I am looking for a volouteer for this task:
Peter Berendi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> announced that he likes
to be the volounteer for this task.
Unfortunately, I did no hear again from him, but I got
a proposal from
"Krisztian Gede" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
who also likes to do the job.
Note that this can never be 100% correct as there is no relation
between the names on the master (UNIX) filesystem, the ISO-9660
names and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are
untranslated with respect to the original files on the
master (UNIX) filesystem.
- implement Yellow book compliant XA extended dir attributes
- add libecc/edc for CDI and similar.
This may not be needed if we ise VCDimager and recent
cdrecord versions.
CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES:
To compile on Cygwin32, get Cygwin and install it.
For more information read README.win32
The files are located on:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha ...
NOTE: These tar archives are 100% ansi compatible. Solaris 2.x tar and GNU
tar may get some minor trouble.
WARNING: Do not use 'mc' to extract the tar file!
All mc versions before 4.0.14 cannot extract symbolic links correctly.
WARNING: Do not use 'winzip' to extract the tar file!
Winzip cannot extract symbolic links correctly.
J�rg
EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) J�rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
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URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix
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