cdrtools/AN-3.02a06

***************** Important news ******************************

For the 'Slottable Source Plugin Module' SSPM Features read README.SSPM

***************** Please Test *********************************

NEW features of cdrtools-3.02a06:

This is the first localization step for cdrtools. All programs now (hopefully)
call gettext() for all strings that need localization.

-	The next step will include dgettext() calls for the libraries.

-	The following step will include the extracted strings

-	The last step will include German translations and install support
	for the resulting binary message object files.

----------> Please test and report compilation problems! <---------

***** NOTE: As mentioned since 2004, frontends to cdrtools should *****
*****		call all programs from cdrtools in the "C" locale *****
*****		by e.g. calling: LC_ALL=C cdrecord ....		  *****
*****		unless these frontends support localized strings  *****
*****		used by the cdrtools with NLS support.		  *****

This version compiles on Win-DOS using the Microsoft compiler cl.exe but
warning: due to missing POSIX compliance with basic features (e.g. stat()
does not return inode numbers), there are many problems with the resulting
code and thus it is recommended to better use a POSIX layer on top of 
WIN-DOS.

		*** WARNING        ***
		*** Need new smake ***

	*** Due to the fact that schily-2014-04-03 introduced to use new macro
	*** expansions and a related bug fix in smake, you need a new smake
	*** to compile this source. To ensure this, get a recent "schily"
	*** tarball from http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/
	*** and call:

	cd ./psmake
	./MAKE-all
	cd ..
	psmake/smake
	psmake/smake install

	The new smake version mentioned above is smake-1.2.4.
	Note that smake-1.2.5 exists and is preferrable.

	Now you have a new smake that is able to compile this source.

	Note that the major makefile restructuring introduced in
	schily-2014-04-03 is now more than one month ago and thus seems
	to work without problems.

	WARNING: the new version of the isoinfo program makes use of the 
		*at() series of functions that have been introduced by Sun
		in August 2001 and added to POSIX.1-2008. For older platforms,
		libschily now includes emulations for these functions but
		these emulations have not yet been tested thoroughly.
		Please report problems!


All:

Libschily:

-	libschily: fprformat.c now compiles with format.c in a way that is useful
	on all possible targets by implementing a double buffered macro based
	internal method for fprfprmat().

	This is aprox. 10% slower than the previous single buffered solution for
	Solaris (based on the putc_unlocked() macro) but it works anywhere and
	it does not have the problems with unbuffered streams (like stderr) 
	that have been seen on Solaris since fprformat() was introduced in 2013.

-	libschily: js_printf() and js_fprintf() now by default uses fprfprmat()
	on all platforms. This reduces the performance on Solaris by 10% but it
	enhances the performance on all other platforms. Our "od" implementation
	via "hdump" is now 70% faster than "gnu od" on Linux instead of
	being 50% faster before that change. It seems to be a good idea to get
	a fast and POSIX compliant "od" implementation on Linux.

-	Some typos in some manpages have been fixed.

Libcdrdeflt:

Libdeflt:

Libedc (Optimized by J<>rg Schilling, originated by Heiko Ei<45>feldt heiko@hexco.de):

Libfile:

Libfind:

Libhfs_iso:

Libmdigest:

Libparanoia (Ported/enhanced by J<>rg Schilling, originated by Monty xiphmont@mit.edu):

Libscg:

-	libscg: fix a comparison with the timeout value that was wrong
	because of a wrong copy/paste action. This code fragment is
	used when the Linux kernel returns unspecific SCSI error codes
	and previously caused cdrecord to incorrectly assume a timeout
	that than incorrectly stopped the write operation.

-	libscg: added a debug message (in non-silent mode) that prints
	the sg_io.host_status value in case of unknown states.

-	libscg: A new interface function "scg_opts()" has been introduced to parse
	and set op generic SCSI options. The only new implemented general option
	for now is: "ignore-resid". This option was introduced in order to be able
	to work around a Linux kernel bug that results in a DMA residual count
	!= 0 even though all data was transferred.

Libscgcmd:

Libsiconv:

Rscsi:

Cdrecord:

-	cdrecord: A new option scgopts=list has been introduced. Call
	"cdrecord scgopts=ignore-resid ..." in order to work around the mentioned
	Linus kernel bug.  

-	cdrecord: The man page now also mentions scgopts=ignore-resid

Cdda2wav (Maintained/enhanced by J<>rg Schilling, originated by Heiko Ei<45>feldt heiko@hexco.de):

-	cdda2wav: A new option scgopts=list has been introduced.

Readcd:

-	readcd: A new option scgopts=list has been introduced.

Scgcheck:

-	scgcheck: A new option scgopts=list has been introduced.

Scgskeleton:

-	scgskeleton: A new option scgopts=list has been introduced.

Btcflash:

-	btcflash: A new option scgopts=list has been introduced.

Mkisofs (Maintained/enhanced by J<>rg Schilling since 1997, originated by Eric Youngdale):

-	mkisofs call free(mroot) in main to quiet the address sanitzier.
	Thanks to Heiko Ei<45>feldt for reporting.

-	mkisofs: better error messages for rotten ISO-9660 directories
	that are encountered in multi-session mode.
	Thanks to Heiko Ei<45>feldt for reporting.


HELIOS TODO:

	-	Add the HELIOS UNICODE mapping code. This needs to be done 
		at UCS-2 level for Joliet and UDF (instead of UTF-8) and only
		for Rock Ridge (in case of a UTF-8 based target locale) using
		UTF-8 based translations.

	-	Make the Apple extensions work again with "mkisofs -find"

TODO:

	-	read Joliet filenames with multi-session if no TRANS.TBL
		or RR is present. I am looking for a volunteer for this task!

		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.

	-	add libecc/edc for CDI and similar.


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:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/files/alpha/ ...

NOTE:	These tar archives are 100% POSIX compatible. GNU tar may get some
	minor trouble. If you like a 100% POSIX compliant tar, get star from
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-tar/files/ of from the schily-*
	tarball at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/

WARNING: Do not use 'winzip' to extract the tar file!
	Winzip cannot extract symbolic links correctly.

Joerg