cdrtools-2.00.3-sgipl1: description + notes
cdrecord is a command line interface for CD writers, and works
on almost all UNIX boxes. It has multisession support and operates with
many different CD writers and rewritable drives -- see the cdrecord
home page for details. This package also includes cdda2wav,
a sampling utility that dumps CD audio data into wav sound
files, and readcd, a simple utility for copying files from a CD.
This version is a security and portability update which fixes a possible
root exploit if cdrecord or other libscg compliant applications
are installed suid root. It also includes a script, isoextract,
which allows the user to extract files from an ISO9660 filesystem.
Furthermore, there is a version of cdrecord, cdrecord-dvd which
is capable of writing dvd-r(w)s. It is based on a patch from
http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd.html.
Two scripts, cdda2mp3 and cdda2ogg, dump CD audio data
respectively in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats. These scripts require additional
tools not included with cdrtools. For the Ogg Vorbis format, the tools
contained in the package
vorbis-tools
can be used.
This version includes also the support for remote SCSI. However, the
rscsi daemon, needed for accepting remote SCSI connections, is
not installed by default. To install it, launch inst or the
Software Manager and manually mark the subsystem
fw_cdrtools.sw.rscsi for installation.
Starting with version 1.9, this package also includes the mkisofs
and mkhybrid utilities, which were previously distributed as
separate packages.
mkisofs is a pre-mastering program to generate the iso9660
filesystem - it takes a snapshot of a given directory tree, and
generates a binary image which will correspond to an iso9660 filesystem
when written to a block device.
mkisofs is also capable of generating the System Use Sharing
Protocol records specified by the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol. This
is used to further describe the files in the iso9660 filesystem to a
unix host, and provides information such as longer filenames, uid/gid,
posix permissions, and block and character devices.
mkhybrid is a pre-mastering utility that creates
ISO9660/ROCKRIDGE/JOLIET/HFS filesystem + RockRidge extentions - it
takes a snapshot of a given directory tree, and generates a binary
image which will correspond to an iso9660 filesystem when written to a
block device.
Note that mkisofs and mkhybrid are not designed to
communicate directly with the CD writer. Most writers have proprietary
command sets which vary from one manufacturer to another. You need a
specialized tool like cdrecord to actually burn the disk.
There have been unconfirmed reports suggesting that
mediad may interfere with cdrecord if it attempts to
monitor a drive while you are burning a disc. If this happens try
altering /etc/config/mediad.config to ignore that
device and send us a problem report.
Additional documents can be found in
/usr/freeware/share/doc/cdrtools
Special thanks to Andrea Suatoni
(a.suatoni@telefonica.net)
for helping port this package to IRIX.
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