Mentioned support for DVD-R DL as single-session media

xorriso/xorriso.1

@@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ There are two families of media in the MMC standard:
 unformatted DVD-RW. These media provide a table of content which
 describes their existing sessions. See option \fB\-toc\fR.
 .br
+Similar to multi-session media are DVD-R DL and minimally blanked DVD-RW.
+They allow only a single session of which the size must be known in advance.
+xorriso will write onto them only if option -close is set to "on".
+.br
 \fBOverwriteable media\fR are DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, BD-RE, and formatted DVD-RW.
 They allow random write access but do not provide information about their
 session history. If they contain one or more ISO 9660 sessions and if the
@@ -241,7 +245,7 @@ The write method of \fBmodifying\fR produces compact filesystem
 images with no outdated files or directory trees. Modifying can write its
 images to target media which are completely unsuitable for multi-session
 operations. E.g. DVD-RW which were treated with -blank deformat_quickest,
-named pipes, character devices, sockets.
+DVD-R DL, named pipes, character devices, sockets.
 On the other hand modified sessions cannot be written to appendable media
 but to blank media only.
 .br

xorriso/xorriso.info

@@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ There are two families of media in the MMC standard:
 *Multi-session media* are CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+R/DL, BD-R, and
 unformatted DVD-RW. These media provide a table of content which
 describes their existing sessions. See option *-toc*.
+Similar to multi-session media are DVD-R DL and minimally blanked
+DVD-RW.  They allow only a single session of which the size must be
+known in advance.  xorriso will write onto them only if option -close
+is set to "on".
 *Overwriteable media* are DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, BD-RE, and formatted DVD-RW.
 They allow random write access but do not provide information about
 their session history. If they contain one or more ISO 9660 sessions
@@ -221,9 +225,9 @@ Growing is achieved by option -dev.
 with no outdated files or directory trees. Modifying can write its
 images to target media which are completely unsuitable for multi-session
 operations. E.g. DVD-RW which were treated with -blank
-deformat_quickest, named pipes, character devices, sockets.  On the
+deformat_quickest, DVD-R DL, named pipes, character devices, sockets.
-other hand modified sessions cannot be written to appendable media but
+On the other hand modified sessions cannot be written to appendable
-to blank media only.
+media but to blank media only.
 So for this method one needs either two optical drives or has to work
 with filesystem objects as source and/or target media.
 Modifying takes place if input drive and output drive are not the same
@@ -3935,12 +3939,12 @@ File: xorriso.info,  Node: ConceptIdx,  Prev: CommandIdx,  Up: Top
 * ACL, set in ISO image, -setfacl_r:     Manip.               (line  97)
 * ACL, show in ISO image, -getfacl:      Navigate.            (line  69)
 * ACL, show in ISO image, -getfacl_r:    Navigate.            (line  76)
-* Appendable media, _definition:         Media.               (line  34)
+* Appendable media, _definition:         Media.               (line  38)
 * Backslash Interpretation, _definition: Processing.          (line  49)
 * Backup, enable fast incremental, -disk_dev_ino: Loading.    (line 163)
 * Backup, enable features, -for_backup:  Loading.             (line 158)
 * Backup, scdbackup checksum tag, -scdbackup: Emulation.      (line 131)
-* Blank media, _definition:              Media.               (line  25)
+* Blank media, _definition:              Media.               (line  29)
 * Blind growing, _definition:            Methods.             (line  40)
 * Bootability, control, -boot_image:     Bootable.            (line  20)
 * cdrecord, Emulation:                   Emulation.           (line  76)
@@ -3950,7 +3954,7 @@ File: xorriso.info,  Node: ConceptIdx,  Prev: CommandIdx,  Up: Top
 * Character Set, for output, -out_charset: SetWrite.          (line 156)
 * Character set, learn from image, -auto_charset: Loading.    (line  80)
 * Character Set, of terminal, -local_charset: Charset.        (line  47)
-* Closed media, _definition:             Media.               (line  39)
+* Closed media, _definition:             Media.               (line  43)
 * Comment, #:                            Scripting.           (line 128)
 * Create, new ISO image, _definiton:     Methods.             (line   6)
 * Delete, from ISO image, -rm:           Manip.               (line  21)
@@ -4063,7 +4067,7 @@ File: xorriso.info,  Node: ConceptIdx,  Prev: CommandIdx,  Up: Top
 * Navigate, tell disk working directory, -pwdx: Navigate.     (line  23)
 * Navigate, tell ISO working directory, -pwd: Navigate.       (line  20)
 * Next writeable address, -grow_blindly: AqDrive.             (line  44)
-* Overwriteable media, _definition:      Media.               (line  10)
+* Overwriteable media, _definition:      Media.               (line  14)
 * Ownership, global in ISO image, -uid:  SetWrite.            (line 162)
 * Ownership, in ISO image, -chown:       Manip.               (line  42)
 * Ownership, in ISO image, -chown_r:     Manip.               (line  47)
@@ -4163,53 +4167,53 @@ Node: Top420
 Node: Overview1324
 Node: Model3209
 Node: Media6089
-Node: Methods8519
+Node: Methods8739
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+Node: Drives11295
-Node: Extras14372
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+Node: Options23181
-Node: AqDrive24520
+Node: AqDrive24749
-Node: Loading27426
+Node: Loading27655
-Node: Insert39605
+Node: Insert39834
-Node: SetInsert47962
+Node: SetInsert48191
-Node: Manip56529
+Node: Manip56758
-Node: CmdFind65210
+Node: CmdFind65439
-Node: Filter75161
+Node: Filter75390
-Node: Writing79510
+Node: Writing79739
-Node: SetWrite85799
+Node: SetWrite86028
-Node: Bootable97748
+Node: Bootable97977
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+Node: Charset106184
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+Node: Restore135946
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xorriso/xorriso.texi

@@ -264,6 +264,10 @@ There are two families of media in the MMC standard:
 unformatted DVD-RW. These media provide a table of content which
 describes their existing sessions. See option @strong{-toc}.
 @*
+Similar to multi-session media are DVD-R DL and minimally blanked DVD-RW.
+They allow only a single session of which the size must be known in advance.
+xorriso will write onto them only if option -close is set to "on".
+@*
 @cindex Overwriteable media, _definition
 @strong{Overwriteable media} are DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, BD-RE, and formatted DVD-RW.
 They allow random write access but do not provide information about their
@@ -353,7 +357,7 @@ The write method of @strong{modifying} produces compact filesystem
 images with no outdated files or directory trees. Modifying can write its
 images to target media which are completely unsuitable for multi-session
 operations. E.g. DVD-RW which were treated with -blank deformat_quickest,
-named pipes, character devices, sockets.
+DVD-R DL, named pipes, character devices, sockets.
 On the other hand modified sessions cannot be written to appendable media
 but to blank media only.
 @*

xorriso/xorriso_eng.html

@@ -581,7 +581,15 @@ cdrecord and mkisofs.</DT>
 </DD>
 <DD>Enhancements towards stable version 0.6.0:
 <UL>
-<LI>- none yet -</LI>
+<LI> Made behavior of -as mkisofs with unknown options more similar to original
+</LI>
+<LI>
+New option -preparer_id, -as mkisofs options -p and -preparer
+</LI>
+<LI>
+DVD-R DL are supported as single-session media.
+I.e. only with option -close "on".
+</LI>
 <!-- 
 <LI>- none yet -</LI>
  -->

xorriso/xorriso_timestamp.h

@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define Xorriso_timestamP "2010.08.18.181855"
+#define Xorriso_timestamP "2010.08.21.103003"