Cdburn is a Perl program to make an ISO9660 raw CD image and then burn the CD.
It is for making data backups (Joliet format), which maintain
the original filesystem structure of the source files. It does not handle audio CDs,
nor does it presently handle multi-session CDs. See the cdrecord man
page for info on adding the "multi" option to your cdburn sessions
 if that is something you want to burn multi-session CDs.

The purpose of cdburn is to create a simplified command line interface 
to burn cross-platform CDs using common freeware UNIX CD recording utilities.
I wrote it to give our computer animation students an easy way to back up their
files from our SGI's, so that they could be read back on SGI, Windows, or other system.
I've also found it handy for backups at home on my Linux system.

Cdburn requires that cdrecord by Joerg Schilling and 
mkisofs by Eric Youngdale be installed. See:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/mkisofs 

IRIX binaries of cdrecord and mkisofs can be found on SGI's freeware site at:
 ftp://freeware.sgi.com/index.html

RedHat Linux RPMs of cdrecord and mkisofs can be found at the usual locations
and/or via rpmfind. Note: as of RedHat 6.0, the mkisofs RPM comes with the
standard RedHat distribution, but cdrecord must be downloaded from other sites.
I am not sure why that is.

This program has been tested under IRIX and Linux, using Perl5, but should be
easily configurable for any UNIX platform with Perl5 installed on which cdrecord
and mkisofs will compile and run. (i.e. most of them.)
It assumes a SCSI CD burner, but it should be modifiable for other
types of burners if cdrecord supports them.

Cdburn is redistributable under the terms of the Gnu Public License.
Amy Alexander amy@emsh.calarts.edu
If you want to send a postcard, you can send to
Amy Alexander, CalArts Film/Video, 24700 McBean Pkwy., Valencia, CA 91355 USA

This software has been working well around here, but still, I won't
be responsible if it happens to screw up on you. Always check your backups! :-)
 

You can get help with cdburn by typing
cdburn -h 

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