NEW features of cdrecord-1.8a19:

cdrecord:

-	New option -force allows to blank defective CD-RW's
	that otherwise would cause cdrecord to complain about
	a media with non recoverable TOC errors.

-	Fixed a typo that prevented compilation of cdrecord.c with
	K&R compilers.

-	Fixed a bug with ISRC's in DAO mode.

-	Fixed a bug with non page aligned buffers if the FIFO was
	present. This caused problems with FreeBSD/current/CAM
	due to the fact that the max. number of DMA pages was 
	exceeded.

-	5 new CD blank manufacturers added to the list of the decoder

-	Add code to read back the used writing speed from MMC drives.
	This allows to call cdrecord speed=4 on a CD-RW and to read
	Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 ....

-	Added support for -toc on the Philips CDD-522

readcd:

-	New. This is currently a stripped down version of scgskeleton.
	Unlike its brother, it compiles on all OS.
	readcd allows you to read data CD's. Because it ignores the
	CD disk label, it may be used to copy Solaris boot CD's.

	Call:

		readcd [target] [lun] [scsibusno]

	Select function 11 to copy a CD to a file. If you are trying
	to copy a CD-R that has been made in TAO mode, modify the
	value for Number of sectors to copy by subtracting '2' from the
	displayed default value.	

mkisofs:

-	upgraded to mkisofs-1.12b5 which is not really very different
	from the mkisofd-1.12b4 that was in this package before.
	mkisofs-1.12b5 now includes my patches and offeres some
	new enhancements as shown below:

-	mkisofs now is able to create a new session that is not
	related to a startsector '0'. This now makes it easy to
	create a CD+ where the first session contains audio and the second
	session contains a ISO-9660 filesystem.
	Use "mkisofs -C0,xxx ...."
	and ommit -Mdevice to use this new feature.

-	Check for overflow in the Joliet directory tables.

-	changed UNICODE level for Joliet
	As mkisofs just "expands" 8 bit character codes to 16 bits and does
	nothing special with the Unicode characters, therefore shouldn't mkisofs
	really be stating that it's using UCS-2 Level 1, not Level 3 for
	the Joliet directory tree.  


cdda2wav:

Features:
  o     fixed an ugly bug with premature death of the writer process.
        leading to shortened last tracks.
  o     changed the speed default from 0 to 0xffff (for maximum speed)
  o     enhanced cd text detection
  o     added the creator field for cd text output
  o     increased the version number :-)
  o     added a new file NEEDED to guide all our sponsors :-)
  o     clean ups

Features/Changes compared to cdrtools-1.8a18:
  o  bug fix: fixed the premature end bug finally
  o  bug fix: endian detection for big endian machines works now
  o  bug fix: undid a debugging change in the sectorsize handling
  o  treat broken start sector address of first track as zero
  o  cd text: fixed crc calculation
  o  cd text: better detection
  o  cd text: added the creator display (but ugly yet)
  o  new default: audio file name for Sun (now .au instead of .sun)
     -Osun works now as well as -Oau, (format is unchanged)
  o  new default: plextor drives default to non overlap
  o  new default: speed is 0xffff (maximum for mmc drives)
     this might not work with other drives, it seems difficult to default
     to a good value for all drives. Relaxed speed checks.
     The user specified value is used as is.
  o  optimisation: use minimum of process communication overhead
  o  optimisation: use page aligned transfer buffers (less memcpys)
  o  optimisation: now default for 4 buffers instead of 2
  o  optimisation: use minimum of endianess changes
  o  optimisation: omitted the early sync() call (was a precaution)
  o  optimisation: reduced frequency of screen updates
  o  misc: minor INF file changes


CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES:

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' ...

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.

Joerg
