CDRX.pl burner script / News: Recent posts

Bugfix to comply with POSIX regular expressions. This appears to be relevant to Red Hat 8.0 systems. Thanks to Robert Wilson for reporting this!

Also of note is that the tarball now decompresses everything into a cdrx-<version> directory, rather than dumping everything into the current directory.

Enjoy! :)

This is a quick update to fix a regex/error-checking problem found in the burning subroutines of some drives (not a problem on mine). This bugfix helps to catch non-empty or missing cdr/w blanks during the burn process. Thanks to Andrew for the bug submission.

Version 0.3 is a major upgrade from the previous 0.2.x series. A list of the new features/fixes:

- The entire program has been rewritten in perl "strict" mode. w00t!!!
- The "intro" screen now only appears during fresh installs (or whenever it doesn't find the settings file).
- Many error-checking fixes.
- Now supports multiple SCSI busses.
- Checks to ensure /var/db actually exists, does a mkdir if necessary.
- Full status output during blanks/burns/etc., to standard output.
- Other oddities I can't quite remember right now...

Yet Another Minor Bugfix Release -
This fixes a minor bug within the iso creation subroutines when creating the iso by hand (versus a cd-to-cd copy) that would sometimes call the wrong temporary iso file.

This is a minor release, primarily fixing a small bug causing ISO's to not list accurately the first time through the ISO burn menu. This release is considered to be near-stable.

The next version of CDRX will be a feature upgrade version and should also be approaching the 1.0 version milestone.

Please update to this most recent patched version. This update fixes a missing db_handle() call. Not a major fix, but might cause directories to read incorrectly during the first iteration in the loop.

All users should upgrade to version 0.2.1 if they intend to any burning from existing ISO's (who doesn't?). Versions 0.2 through 0.1.2 all contain a bug breaking the ability to list ISO files to choose from.

This minor release includes a very important bugfix to the burn_iso_cd() function. This particular bug caused no ISO's to show when listing the contents of a directory.

This is only a vital upgrade for users that have not already upgraded to version 0.1.3p2. Version 0.2 now integrates all "patches" from the cvs build, along with further debugging, code cleanliness, and code trimming (for performance).

Note to all users...
Please upgrade to this new version ASAP if you plan on making CD-to-CD or CD-to-ISO copies (who doesn't). I was previously using dd to rip images from the block device, but it was having issues with certain CD's. Replaced dd with readcd (packaged with cdrecord), ran multiple tests on commercial CD's, works great so far.

Thanks!

This new release incorporates a number of burning features missing in the initial release. New to version 0.1.3:

-create ISO by selecting assorted files
-Direct CD-to-CD copy
-write directories direct to CD
-write assorted files direct to CD

This version incorporates 90% of the features and functionality that it was designed for. Remaining features to be added include audio CD handling and direct mp3-to-CD burning.... read more

CDRX.pl is a perl/text-based script designed to handle CD-R/W burning, CD-RW blanks, ISO creation, etc... using a simple, intuitive set of menus. I chose to start this project for two reasons: 1) Most of the existing CD burning applications available for Linux/*BSD were either lacking features I required, or were very difficult to navigate and use; 2) Just to see if I could do it. ;-)

CDRX.pl is written entirely in perl, without any modules, and strives for complete functionality while maintaining a simple, uncluttered, and intuitive interface. Version 0.1.2 now includes a Setup Wizard to escort the user through configuration of the initial settings. CDRX.pl uses cdrecord, dd, and mkisofs in the back-end.... read more