NEW features of cdrecord-1.8a20:

cdrecord:

-	Better man page

-	automatic switch to -audio if a .au or .wav file was found

-	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.

-	DAO now works for Yamaha 4416 in non dummy mode for CD-R media too.

-	new experimental option -useinfo currently disabled in published version.

-	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.

-	New guessed CD-R manufacturer "Seantram Technology Inc."

-	Partial ATIP reading and full CD-R manufaturer recocgnition
	support for Sony CDU 920/924/926/948

readcd:

mkisofs:

cdda2wav:

  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.


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
