Equiped xorriso-tcltk with help texts and enabled it to start xorriso by itself
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@ -24,16 +24,38 @@ See man xorriso for a documentation of xorriso concepts and commands.
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See man xorrecord for details of the burn image file feature.
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Quick start:
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Quick start
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xorriso -launch_frontend $(which xorriso-tcltk) --stdio --
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In the xorriso build directory, without installation of xorriso:
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xorriso/xorriso -launch_frontend frontend/xorriso-tcltk --stdio --
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After installation of xorriso by make install:
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xorriso-tcltk
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Overview of GUI
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The window is separated into three main areas:
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- Connection to xorriso.
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- Management of drives and image files.
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- Inspection, manipulation, and exploitation of xorriso ISO image model.
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Click the rightmost mouse button while being over any of the GUI elements
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in order to get the particular help text for that element.
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There is no need to close the help window. Just click another element to
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get another help text.
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Program start options
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The Tcl shell "wish" is allergic to options which start by "-h".
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So here is the output of xorriso-tcltk --help :
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Usage:
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xorriso-tcltk [options]
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frontend/xorriso-tcltk [options]
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Options:
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All options must be given with two dashes ("--option") in
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order to distinguish them from any options of the Tcl shell.
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@ -51,6 +73,9 @@ Options:
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It is important that the parent of xorriso and of this
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tcl/tk frontend opens the named pipe for commands before
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it opens the named pipe for replies. This avoids deadlock.
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--silent_start
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Do not issue the start message xorriso-tcltk-version.
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This works only if --silent_start is the first argument.
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--geometry {+|-}X{+|-}Y
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Sets the position of the main window.
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--click_to_focus
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@ -63,229 +88,12 @@ Options:
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Set a file address for logging of xorriso commands and
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reply messages. The log lines will be appended.
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Either --stdio or --named_pipes must be given for a program run.
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If neither --stdio nor --named_pipes is given, then this script
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will try to locate itself in the filesystem and start a xorriso
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run that launches it again.
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In the running GUI, click with the rightmost mouse button on
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any GUI element to get its particular help text.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Overview of GUI elements
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The window is separated into three main areas:
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- Connection to xorriso.
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- Management of drives and image files.
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- Inspection, manipulation, and exploitation of xorriso ISO image model.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Connection to xorriso
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The "End" button leads to the end of frontend and xorriso process.
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The ready/busy field indicates whether a xorriso command is being executed
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and the frontend is still waiting for its reply messages.
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The "Command:" field can be used to send commands to xorriso.
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The "Refresh state display" button causes the other two main areas to update
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their display after manually transmitted commands may have changed the state
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of drives or ISO model.
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The "Log pipes" switch controls whether all xorriso commands and replies
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shall be logged to standard error resp. to the file that has been iven
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with program argumen --log_file. Caution: This log is verbous.
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The message box displays commands sent to xorriso and messages recieved
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from xorriso.
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Many commands which are emitted by the GUI will hide themselves and their
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replies from this display.
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All event messages with severity WARNING or higher will show up, nevertheless.
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The "Recent problem:" field shows the most severe event message that occured
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during the execution of the most recent command. It also displays the most
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recent problem message from the frontend program itself.
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Several commands emitted by the GUI will not clear this display. But any
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manually transmitted command and the major GUI gestures will do.
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The "Worst problem:" field shows the most severe event message that occured
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since last time the "Clear" button was hit. It will not clear automatically.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Management of drives and image files
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The "Scan for drives" button executes command -devices and puts the list
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of found optical drives into the box underneath the button.
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The "Pick input drive" button executes command -indev and obtains some
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information about the medium status. This info is displayed in the
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"Input drive or image" line.
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Further it causes the display of the ISO image model to be updated.
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The "Pick output drive" button executes command -outdev and displays the
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related info in the "Output drive or image" line.
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The "Pick drive for both roles" button executes command -dev and displays
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info in both "... drive or image" lines.
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The "Give up drives" executes commands -indev "" -outdev "" and clears
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both "... drive or image" lines, as well as the ISO model.
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The "Calm drives" button executes command -calm_drives which tells the
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aquired optical drives to stop spinning until the next drive activity
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gets triggered.
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The "Rollback" button excutes command -rollbackwhich drops all pending
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changes of the ISO model and reloads it from the input drive, if one is
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aquired.
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The box underneath these buttons shows the optical drives found by the
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"Can for drives" button.
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A double-click on a drive item has the same effect as button "Pick drive
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for both roles".
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The line "Input drive or image" displays address and medium status of
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the input drive.
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Its "Eject" button excutes command -eject "in".
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Editing the drive address and pressing the Return key causes the execution
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of command -indev with the field content as drive address. Use this to
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load the model from ISO image data files on hard disk.
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The line "Output drive or image" does about the same for the output drive.
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The text input field can be used to address an existing ISO image data
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file or to address a data file that does not yet exist. In the latter
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case, the ,edium status will be blank.
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The "Blank" button executes command -blank "as_needed" on the output drive.
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This also applies to ISO image data files, which will get invalidated by
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a small write operation.
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The "Format" button executes -format "as_needed".
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This only applies to real optical drives and s of interest only with DVD-RW
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or BD-R media, which both can be used formatted and unformatted. Other media
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types which mandatorily need formatting will be formatted by the write
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commands.
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The "Write ISO session" executes command -commit, which writes a session
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with all pending changes to the output drive. The output drive must be
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either blank or it must be the same as the input drive.
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The "Close" switch controls whether command -close "on" is emitted with
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"Write ISO session" or whether -as cdrecord option -multi is omitted with
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"Burn image file:".
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The "TAO" switch controls whether an incremental write type shall be
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enforced with write commands. Normally xorriso will decide by medium status
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and job parameters which write type to choose.
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The "Defect Mgt" switch controls whether slow and error-prone drive internal
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check reading shall be enabled with formatted BD-R or with BD-RE.
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The "Burn image file:" button executes command -as "cdrecord" with the
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content of its text field as disk file address of a data file that is
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to be written to the output drive.
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The medium in the drive may be blank or appendable.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Inspection, manipulation, and exploitation of xorriso ISO image model
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The "Extract to disk:" button executes command -extract with the whole
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tree of the current ISO directory or with the selected items of the box
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underneath "ISO directory:".
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This copies the selected files or directory trees from the input drive
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to the address on hard disk which is given by the text filed right of
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the button.
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The "Underneath" switch controls the effective hard disk address of an item
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if the address in the text field points to a directory. If "Underneath"
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is enabled, then the file object from the ISO filesystem will be copied to its
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name underneath the hard disk directory.
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If "Underneath" is disabled then an ISO directory tree item will be merged
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with the disk directory tree at the given address.
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Example:
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Selected are "/iso_dir" and "/iso_file".
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Address for hard disk is "/tmp/from_iso". Switch "Selected" is enabled.
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"Underneath" enabled causes commands:
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-extract /iso_dir /tmp/from_iso/iso_dir
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-extract /iso_file /tmp/from_iso/iso_file
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"Underneath" disabled:
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-extract /iso_dir /tmp/from_iso
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-extract /iso_file /tmp/from_iso
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The last command will fail because /tmp/from_iso already exists as directory.
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The "Selected" switch controls whether the whole current ISO directory,
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or only the selected items shall be copied to to hard disk.
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The "Overwrite files" switch controls whether existing files may be
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overwritten in the ISO image or by extraction on hard disk.
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The frontend program will only detect the most obvious name collisions,
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but xorriso will reliably refuse to overwrite files if this is banned.
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The "Overwrite ISO dirs" switch controls whether it is allowed to replace
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an ISO directory by a non-directory file.
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If a directory is copied to a directory, then both directory trees will
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be merged. So this switch applies only to situations where non-directories
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hit directories.
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The "Enforce disk dir write access" switch enables the options "auto_chmod_on"
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and "sort_lba_on". "auto_chmod_on" allows xorriso to give itself temporariy
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w-permission to all disk directories which are owned by the xorriso user.
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This is not without dangers, of course, but comes in handy with restoring of
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backups.
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Option "sort_lba_on" reduces head-moves of optical drives and thus can
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speed up extraction substantially. It is bound to "auto_chmod_on" because
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else it might get in trouble when restoring ISO directories which offer
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no w-permission.
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The "Refresh avail:" button triggers a time consuming exact prediction
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of the free space on the medium in the output drive. For this purpose,
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the size of an ISO session with the pending changes is computed.
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With image files rather than real optical drives, the free space of
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the hosting filesystem is displayed.
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The "Insert from disk:" button executes command -map with the disk file
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address that is given by the text field right to the button.
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The switch "Underneath" has the same effect as with file extraction:
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If enabled, a directory from disk will not be unpacked to its single files
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but put underneath the target address by its own leaf name.
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If the switch "Selected" is enabled, then the given disk file or tree will
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be inserted at or underneath the only selected item in the box inderneath
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"ISO directory:".
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The text field in the "ISO directory:" line displays the current ISO
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directory and can be used to toggle its path directly. Hitting the
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Return key causes the current directory to change and the display in
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the box underneath to be refreshed.
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The "Up" buttons move the current ISO directory one directory level up.
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The "Verify" button executes -md5_check_r "SORRY" with the current ISO
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directory. ISO images bear MD5s for each data file if they were produced
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by xorriso with -md5 "on" resp. -for_backup. This frontend enables this
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feature on startup.
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The list box underneath the "ISO directory:" line displays the files in
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the current ISO directory. One or more item can be selected and play a
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role with extraction or insertion of files.
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Most of the buttons underneath the box operate on the selected items
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unconditionally.
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The "Verify" button in the "ISO selection:" line executes command
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-md5_check_r "SORRY" with each of the selected items.
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The "Delete" button executes command -rm_r with each of the selected items.
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The "Rename to:" button iuses command -mv to move each of the selected
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items to the address that is given by the text field right to the button.
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If this address points to an existing ISO directory, then the items will
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be moved underneath that directory and keep their leaf names.
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Else there may be only one selected item which will be renamed to the
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given address.
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The "Make dir" button executes command -mkdir with the address in the
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text field to its left (the same as used by "Rename to:"). Useful to
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create a target directory before moving the selection.
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