cdw is an ncurses-based frontend for cdrecord/wodim (a program writing to
compact discs and blanking CD-RW discs) and mkisofs/genisoimage (a program
creating iso image file). It means that you need to have these programs 
installed on your machine in order to use all possibilites that cdw offers.
You can also copy content of your Audio CD to raw audio files or copy your
single session data CDs to iso image file on your hard drive. You cannot 
read or write DVD discs (at least not yet) or copy your multisession data 
CDs.

cdw is developed and tested on i386 Debian GNU/Linux machine. There are 
some plans to add FreeBSD and x64 machine as target platforms.

Requirements
------------
cdw requirements are following:
 - UNIX terminal, at least 80x25 chars
 - gnu libc library
 - wncurses library (ncurses library with support for wide characters
 - cdio library - multiplaftorm library for accesing your CD hardware
 - some CD hardware
 - mkisofs/genisoimage and cdrecord/wodim


Install
-------
Copy cdw-0.3.3.tar.gz to your source directory, such as /usr/local/src and
'untar' the archive. Complie and install! Type:
 
tar -xzf cdw-0.2.x.tar.gz
cd ./cdw-0.3.3
./configure
make
make install

The configure script will detect all packages that are needed or suggested
for cdw. 

The program automatically creates ~/.cdw.conf in your home directory. This
distribution package contains a default.conf file, which is a sample 
configuration.

cdw also creates log file, default location is in /tmp directory, but you 
can change this in cdw options

GTK GUI
------------------
Older versions of cdw had GTK interface, that could be enabled on compile 
time. cdw no longer provides this option. ncurses interface is the only
user interface available.


Program parameters
------------------
cdw accept the following parameters:
-v | --version : display the version number of cdw
-h | --help    : display help


Usage
-----
Please refer to cdw man page for usage instructions. You can find man page in
man directory. If cdw is already installed on your system, just type 
   man cdw
in your command line.




Contact
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Mail bug reports to <acerion@poczta.wp.pl>
Latest release: http://cdw.sourceforge.net

Jun 26, 2007

