Clarified track content meaning. Corrected some typos and beauty flaws

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Thomas Schmitt 2006-12-13 22:12:36 +00:00
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@ -60,10 +60,32 @@ state of the output media.
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There can be more than one track burned by a single run of cdrskin.
CDs can be kept appendable so that further tracks can
be witten to them in subsequent runs of cdrskin (see option -multi).
be written to them in subsequent runs of cdrskin (see option -multi).
Info about the addresses of burned tracks is kept in a table of
content (TOC) on media and can be retrieved via cdrskin option -toc.
These informations are also used by the operating systems' CD-ROM read drivers.
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In general there are two types of tracks: data and audio. They differ in
sector size, throughput and readability via the systems' CD-ROM drivers
resp. by music CD players.
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If not explicitely option -audio is given, then any track is burned as data
unless the track source is a file with suffix ".wav" or ".au" and has a
header part which identifies it as MS-WAVE resp. SUN Audio with suitable
parameters. Such files are burned as audio tracks by default.
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While audio tracks just contain a given time span of acoustic vibrations,
data tracks may have an arbitray meaning. Nevertheless, ISO-9660 filesystems
are established as a format which can represent a tree of directories and
data files on all major operating systems. Such filesystem images can be
produced by programs mkisofs or genisoimage. They can also be extended by
follow-up tracks if prepared properly. See the man pages of said programs.
cdrskin is able to fulfill the needs about their option -C.
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Another type of data track content are archive formats which originally
have been developed for magnetic tapes. Only formats which mark a detectable
end-of-archive in their data are suitable with CD, though. Well tested are
the archivers afio and star. Not suitable seems GNU tar.
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.SH OPTIONS
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@ -303,17 +325,17 @@ somebody who had a look into the program sourcecode.
Alphabetical list of options which are genuine to cdrskin and intended for
normal use:
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.BI \--allow_setuid
Disable the loud warning about insecure discrepance between login user and
effective user which indicates application of chmod u+s to the program binary.
One should not do this chmod u+s , but it is an old cdrecord tradition.
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.BI \--any_track
Allow source_addresses to begin with "-" (plus further characters) or to
contain a "=" character.
By default such arguments are seen as misspelled options. It is nevertheless
not possible to use one of the options listed with --list_ignored_options.
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.BI \--allow_setuid
Disable the loud warning about insecure discrepance between login user and
effective user which indicates application of chmod u+s to the program binary.
One should not do this chmod u+s , but it is an old cdrecord tradition.
.TP
.BI \--demand_a_drive
Exit with a nonzero value if no drive can be found during a bus scan.
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@ -351,7 +373,7 @@ interpretation of eventual startup files. See section FILES below.
.BI \--list_ignored_options
List all ignored cdrecord options. The --options cannot be used as addresses
of track sources. No track source address may begin with a text equal to an
option which ends by "=".
option which ends by "=". The list is ended by an empty line.
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.BI \--single_track
Accept only the last argument of the command line as track source address.
@ -482,7 +504,7 @@ cdrskin -v dev=0,1,0 fs=32m speed=8 driveropts=burnfree \\
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padsize=300k -tao -
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.B Write several sessions to the same CD
.B Write several sessions to the same CD:
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cdrskin dev=/dev/hdc padsize=300k -multi 1.iso
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@ -492,7 +514,7 @@ cdrskin dev=/dev/hdc padsize=300k -multi -tao 3.afio
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cdrskin dev=/dev/hdc padsize=300k -tao 4.afio
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.B Get the multi-session info for option -C of program mkisofs
.B Get the multi-session info for option -C of program mkisofs:
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c_values=$(cdrskin dev=/dev/sr0 -msinfo 2>/dev/null)
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