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- NEW features of cdrecord-1.8a20:
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- cdrecord:
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- - Better man page
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- - automatic switch to -audio if a .au or .wav file was found
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- - experimental flag -force to help blanking bad CD-RW disks.
- Use cdrecord -force blank=all of cdrecord -force blank=fast
- after waiting 2 minutes after inserting the bad disk into the drive.
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- - DAO now works for Yamaha 4416 in non dummy mode for CD-R media too.
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- - new experimental option -useinfo currently disabled in published version.
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- - Cdrecord nor reads CD-Text if called cdrecord -toc -vv
- and writes the data into a file cdtext.dat in the current directory.
- This is a preparation for CD-Text copy features.
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- - New guessed CD-R manufacturer "Seantram Technology Inc."
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- - Partial ATIP reading and full CD-R manufaturer recocgnition
- support for Sony CDU 920/924/926/948
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- readcd:
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- mkisofs:
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- cdda2wav:
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- o documentation: added a section on performance in README
- o documentation/support: reworked the scan_scsi.linux script to print direct -D settings
- o documentation: added a FAQ
- o bug fix: writing bigendian files from lowendian source when endianess autodetection was needed
- o bug fix: changed default speed back to 0. MMC drives get 0xffff.
- o bug fix: changed voting heuristics to be more reliable
- o bug fix: speed setting for MMC drives.
- o portability: got rid of exotic signal handlers -> should work on BeOS now
- o work around: suppress read cd text commands for fragile drives like NEC
- (currently only enabled on MMC and Plextor drives)
- o work around: added fallback for CDD-522 drives, who cannot do parametrized
- Read Subchannel commands.
- o clean up: inf file formatting changes
- o clean up: changed ReadTocFirstSession to use less reserved fields
- o clean up: cd text titles are reported only when strings are not empty.
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- CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES:
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- To compile on Cygwin32, get Cygwin32-beta20 and install it.
- then create a symlink from /bin to the .../bin directory where bash is located.
- Now run 'make' ...
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- The files are located on:
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- ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha ...
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- NOTE: These tar archives are 100% ansi compatible. Solaris 2.x tar and GNU
- tar may get some minor trouble.
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- WARNING: Do not use 'mc' to extract the tar file!
- All mc versions before 4.0.14 cannot extract symbolic links correctly.
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- Joerg
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