Please have a look at the German open Source Center BerliOS at www.berlios.de
BerliOS will continue to support free hosting of cryptography projects even
when US laws change and don't allow to host cryptography projects in the USA.
Also look at sourcewell.berlios.de, the first Open Source announcement service
that itself is implemented as Open Source project.

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

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

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

NEW features of cdrtools-2.01.01a12:

*******
NOTE: this is _not_ a release that starts a new aplha/beta series of dirtibutions.
	The only reason is to add certain new CD/DVD features that are important.

	So _please_ do not send any patches except when you like to fix extreme bugs.
	I am currently mainly working on stable incremental restore featurs for star-1.5-final.
	Once star-1.5-final is out, cdrtools will start a new developent cycle.
*******


All:

-	New function strlcpy() for better portability.

-	New function strncpy() for better portability.

-	Enhanced Makefile system for better MSVC support

-	Enhanced Makefile system for C++ support

-	Fixed some typos in dirdefs.h

-	New functions getvallargs()/getvargs()/getvfiles()
	allow to have a vector based interface to the 
	advanced argument parsing library functions.
	Currently used by mkisofs.

-	getargs.c is now at up to date again and libschily
	from cdrtools is 100% complete and may be used
	as a shared library to be used by e.g. star too.

-	Added a workaround for a core dump problem with 
	running avoffset.c on FreeBSD/sparc64 (gcc)


Libparanoia (Ported by Jörg Schilling, originated by Monty xiphmont@mit.edu):

Libedc (Optimized by Jörg Schilling, originated by Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):

Libscg:

Rscsi:

Cdrecord:

-	Replace nice(-20) by nice(-NZERO)

Cdda2wav (By Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):

-	Replace nice(-20) by nice(-NZERO)

-	Renamed Inquiry() by ScsiInquiry() for better VMS support

-	Fixed an unsigned comparison with zero in resample.c

-	Fixed a printf format string with short argument.

Readcd:

Scgcheck:

Scgskeleton:

Btcflash:


Mkisofs (By Jörg Schilling and James Pearson j.pearson@ge.ucl.ac.uk):

-	Replaced GNU getopt_long() by getargs(). This has been done for 
	several reasons:

	-	Get rid of the annoying oddities/bugs of GNU getopt_long()

	-	Use a unique option parser for all programs from cdrtools.

	-	Find a way to better deal with historic badly planned
		options. These problems are caused by the fact that
		several options that take arguments start the same way.
		With GNU getopt_long, there is no clean way to deal with
		the resulting problems. getargs() allows to specify 
		whether an option needs to have a space between the option
		name and the argument or not.

	-	Make the code easier to understand and to maintain.

	-	Segregation of option parsing and option conflict checking.

	-	Code size reduction.

	Note that the intention is that all options still behave as documented
	in the man page. If you have problems with scripts, first check whether
	your usage is aligned with the the documentation or whether you did 
	depend from a side effect from GNU getopt_long before sending a bug
	report.

-	Fixed an Eltorito Boot bug that happenes together with
	ISO-9660:1999

-	Added some patches for better VMS portability from Steven M. Schweda
	sms@antinode.org

TODO:
	-	read Joliet filenames with multi-session if no TRANS.TBL
		or RR is present. I am looking for a volouteer 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:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/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
	ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/

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

Joerg