CDR/RW Creator Wizard V0.99 beta 13 - 01052000
(C) Rocco Foti 1999-2000
http://forosoftware.freeweb.org  or  http://www.quasarbbs.com/rocco

This is a BETA version (stable I believe)

N.B. --> USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. <-- N.B.
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PURPOSE:
These is a multithreading frontend to cdrecord/2 - mkisofs/2 for creating Audio and Data-CDs.

At startup you can choose:

- DataCD
- AudioCD
- CopyCD


CHANGES:
0.99 beta 13
- Corrected error: when pressing 'Get SCSI bus' button in CDRecord/2 options page CDR/RW Wizard didn't change the device number.
- NEW! Support of more than one CD copy. (UP TO 20!) - ONLY DURING CD COPY.
- Corrected error in 'Options DataCD 1/2': now CDR/RW Wizard, when you press the 'Get info CD' button, return the right numbers needed 
  for sessions over the first.
- In 'Options DataCD 2/2' screen if an image file is found into the destination directory, its name will be showed in bold font and in 
  red colour and the hint text inform you that an image file was found:
  
  If you don't change the image file name, that will be used to create a DataCD; if you change the name, the old file will be left and 
  a new one will be created.

- minor bugs fixed
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 12
- Corrected error during copy on-the-fly. CDR/RW calculated a wrong estimated time.
- Added support for CDDA2WAV grabber (come with CDRecord/2). It uses SCSI devices (as CDRecord/2 does), but thanks to Daniela's 
  DANIATAPI.FLT I grabbed a CD using my ATAPI CDROM (40x).
- When you press, in 'Options AudioCD' screen, 'Grab! button and CDROM is not inserted CDR/RW report a wrong CDROM letter, now 
  corrected.
- When you open, in 'Options AudioCD' screen, MP3 folder with the button 'Open dir' and you add or delete MP3 files CDR/RW Wizard can     
  refresh MP3 list automatically when you close MP3 folder.
- Added more info in grabber and encoder dialog-boxes.
- The ENCODERS SUPPORTED: Lame (not always not so good quality!), BladeEnc (good quality!) - fully tested-, Xing toMPG (sometimes 
  don't start process - so don't use it. I'll search for this problem solution), 
- Tested with OS/2 Warp 4 FP13 -> OK
- Tested with Cdrecord 1.8.1a05 -> OK
- minor bugs fixed
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 11
- The package now support installation program WarpIN (THE OS/2 INSTALLATION PROGRAM by Netlabs), and it is distribuited 
  as autoinstallation file (CDRWIZ.WPI).
- Now in the 'AudioCD Options' screen when you press 'Grab!' button, the grabber starts and verify that a CD 
  is inserted in the CD-ROM drive.
- Using the integrated 'File browser' when you change drive CDRWizard don't find CDRWIZ.INI anymore. CORRECTED!
- Started CDR/R Creator Wizard help compilation.
- Added help support
- Tested with Cdrecord 1.8.1a05
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 10
- In the 'DataCD Options' screen in the 'Directory/drive to copy' field you can drop all dir you want. This 
  field is now a dropdown box. You can also clear it.
- The FIRST DIR (if, and onlu if, more than one is dropped) you drop in the 'Directory/drive to copy' field 
  can be writed as subdir and all his files saved inside it. Otherwise, when you write the CD, all files 
  inside the FIRST DIR will be written in the root dir.
  ALL THE DIRS other than first, will be treated as SUBDIR.
  To verify the result, after the image creation you can use the 'Image maintenance utilities' and in
  particular ISOINFO (List [ls -lR] command).
- For each field containing dir information now is present a button ('Open dir') that open correspondent 
  folder to help you verify its contents. It is also present, in DataCD Options 2/3 screen, the Drives icon
  to open 'Drives' object.
- Drag'n'drop is possible both CDRW Creator Wizard and WPS folders.
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 9
- New support for MP3 audio file. Now you can use MP3 files to create Audio-CDs (using MPG123 that come with  
  Audio_CD_Creator). You can also use MP3 audio files downloaded from Internet without need to encode WAV
  files.
- Now you can create directly from CDRW Creator Wizard  MP3 files from WAV files. The encoders supported are:
  Lame (fully tested!), Xing toMPG (Win32 version ported with the old project WIN32-OS/2), BladeEnc, L3enc.
- Some operations now can be performed using drag'n'drop (typically you can drag'n'drop directories!)
- You can play MP3 before write them (in the screen 'AudioCD Options')
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 8.1
- Service release: corrected some syntax errors. That did not let you to launch neither MKISOFS nor CDRECORD2
- Initiate MP3 support (NOT YET ACTIVE!!!)
- Now you can drag filenames and/or directories

0.99 beta 8
- Now you can copy an OS/2 boot partition and CDRW Creator Wizard can set properly options
- You can explicitly exclude file/s from copy
- Revisited SCSI scan operation
- Now CDRW Creator Wizard can set automatically grabber options to grab all tracks in a AudioCD (even if you   
  can modify them) - Leech and Alfons supported!
- The program now save, in the INI file, only options that really changed
- Write bar and time progress now stops when write process ends
- Corrected 'Dummy option'/'Fix CD after write' options error (before clicking 'Dummy option' twice it will 
  call 'Fix CD after write' procedure
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 7
- Now CDRWizard show images correctly (excuse for this error!)
- It's now possible to abort read process
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 6
- Corrected mkisofs error (due to a syntax error!!!): 'Mkisofs ended with errors. RC=2'
- Now is possible to choose the fifo cache size (in the 'Preferences...' notebook)
- I now included all images (the zip file is bigger than before!!)
- CDR/RW info buttons (in Options DataCD and Options AudioCD screens) now show information not in the
  VX-REXX Console but in a separate window
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 5
- Copy CD on the fly enabled and OK!
- Added CD info options page in 'Preferences...' for mkisofs
- Added Maintenance Procedures page in 'Preferences...' for cdrecord2 utilities 
  (DEVDUMP, ISOINFO, etc...)
- Added support for cdrecord2 utilities (DEVDUMP, ISOINFO, etc...) (FOR EXPERIMENTAL USE ONLY)
- Support for new versions of mkisofs-1.12b5 (7Jan2000) and cdrecord2-V1.8a40
- Aesthetical GUI changes
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 4
- Fixed multisession CD creation
- Copy CD on the fly enabled (NOT YET TESTED!!!)
- Now CDRW search in SCSI chain is OK! (After Daniela Engert IDE driver) changes
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 3
- Sometimes CDR/RW Creator Wizard shows hided windows: CORRECTED!
- In 'Preferences' dialog box now, if you don't change nothing and press 'Cancel' button,
  don't appear the warning dialog box
- other minor changes
 
0.99 beta 2
- Calcule of the remain write time instead write time (in both WriteCD and CopyCD mode)
- Eliminaded dialog box information before Read and before Write
- other minor changes

0.99 beta 1
- First public release


PREREQUISITE (UPDATED):

To use CDR/RW Creator you must have:

- Warp 3 or 4 (tested only on Warp 4!!!)

- VROBJ.DLL
  (on my site! -> http://forosoftware.freeweb.org  
                  or
                  http://www.quasarbbs.com/rocco)

- EMX runtime library v.0.9d fix 2 or later
  (ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/emx+gcc/emxrt.zip)

- The OS/2 ASPI-Router ASPIROUT.SYS.
  (ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/drivers/misc/aspir101.zip)

- a Grabber (like LEECH or ALFONS to extract audio tracks) SUPPORTED (one of):
  LEECH  (http://www.sprog.auc.dk/~motr96) as his INF file reports.
  ALFONS (http://www.algonet.se/~mikkje/alfons.html) as his readme file reports.
  CDDA2WAV (in the same package of CDRecord/2)

- CDRecord/2 and MkisoFs/2 (in the same package)
  (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/cdrecord/cdrecordmain.htm)

- A program to raise Mkisofs priority when piping to cdrecord2 (during ONTHEFLY copy):
  SPE  (ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/systools/spe.zip)
  NICE (ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/systools/nice.zip)

- DEVDUMP, ISODUMP, ISOINFO, ISOVFY (in the same package of CDRecord/2)

- CDRTools executable V1.02 (supports some common tasks like TOC reading or CD-blanking)
  (comes with the package Audio_CD_Creator)

- An MP3 file encoder SUPPORTED (one of): 
  Lame       (http://www.sulaco.org/mp3)
  or
  Xing toMPG (http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4fe0470/tompg.zip)  (ATTENTION: PROBLEM WITH THIS!!!! Don't use it for a while)
  or
  BladeEnc   (http://bladeenc.mp3.no)

- MPG123 (to create AudioCD using MP3 audio files)
  (comes with the package Audio_CD_Creator)


INFO:
- Reading Slider bar is merely folkloric: it increments by 3 steps and at the end
  changes its colour (Blue, Green and Red). This because I don't know how redirect
  mkisofs output to catch program percentage. (mkisofs writes both error and output to stderr)
  If someone can help me I'll very glad!
- Each window control is documentated with short tips in the window's status bar.
- The MP3 file (Miserere_01.mp3) used as test in Preferences dialog belongs to ZUCCHERO FORNACIARI (a 
  wonderful Italian singer!)


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- Help file  ->  (IN PROGRESS!)
- NEW! --> Creation of bootable OS/2 CD (I need HELP to create a standard procedure to create bootable CD, because the documents of 
  ALLEN DERMODY and ALFREDO FERNZANDEZ DIAZ are, for me, very incomprehensible and perhapse a little bungling.)


BUGS:
- Much less than before, I hope  ->  Please report me when you find one!


SUGGESTIONS WELCOMED AT THE ADDRESS:
-roccofoti@tiscalinet.it-, if I'm able to satisfy your wishes.

IF YOU FIND OTHER BUGS PLEASE SEND ME AN E-MAIL AT THE ADDRESS: 
-roccofoti@tiscalinet.it-

Visit my homepage:
(http://forosoftware.freeweb.org or http://www.quasarbbs.com/rocco) to download new CDR/RW Creator Wizard release.

THANKS
Thanks to all of you that use CDRW Creator Wizard, also if you found some, too much perhaps, bugs!!!
I hope that with your help I can produce an useful burning utility

>>>>>>>>>>>     EXCUSE for MY BAD ENGLISH     <<<<<<<<<<<<<


LICENSE:
This package is provided 'as is' under the
Gnu public Licence (GPL). 

N.B. --> USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. <-- N.B.
