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- CD-ROM Maker
- Philip J. Erdelsky
-
-The CDMAKE utility converts files from DOS/Windows format to ISO9660
-(CD-ROM) format.
-
-First, gather all the files to be converted and put them into a single
-base directory and its subdirectories, arranged just the way you want
-them on the CD-ROM. Remember that ISO9660 allows subdirectories to be
-nested only eight levels deep. Therefore, if the base directory is
-C:\CDROM,
-
- C:\CDROM\D2\D3\D4\D5\D6\D7\D8\FOO.TXT is permitted, but
-
- C:\CDROM\D2\D3\D4\D5\D6\D7\D8\D9\FOO.TXT is forbidden.
-
-Also, ISO9660 does not allow directories to have extensions, although
-DOS does.
-
-Finally, the characters in file and directory names and file extensions
-must be letters, digits or underscores. Other punctuation marks
-permitted by DOS/Windows are forbidden by ISO9660. You can use the -c
-option to override this restriction, but the resulting CD-ROM may not be
-readable on systems other than DOS/Windows.
-
-Files in the base directory will be written to the root directory of the
-CD-ROM image. All subdirectories of the base directory will appear as
-subdirectories of the root directory of the CD-ROM image. Their
-contents, and the contents of their subdirectories, down to the eighth
-level, will be faithfully copied to the CD-ROM image.
-
-System files will not be written to the CD-ROM image. Hidden files will
-be written to the CD-ROM image, and will retain their hidden attributes.
-Read-only files will be written, and will remain read-only on the
-CD-ROM, but this does not distinguish them in any way, because on a
-CD-ROM all files are read-only. The archive attribute will be lost.
-
-File and directory date and time stamps will be preserved in the CD-ROM
-image.
-
-The utility is called up by a command line of the following form:
-
- CDMAKE [-q] [-v] [-p] [-s N] [-m] [-j] [-b bootimage] source volume image
-
- source specifications of base directory containing all files to
- be written to CD-ROM image
-
- volume volume label
-
- image image file or device
-
- -q quiet mode - display nothing but error messages
-
- -v verbose mode - display file information as files are
- scanned and written - overrides -p option
-
- -p show progress while writing
-
- -s N abort operation before beginning write if image will be
- larger than N megabytes (i.e. 1024*1024*N bytes)
-
- -m accept punctuation marks other than underscores in
- names and extensions
-
- -j generates Joliet filename records
-
- -b bootimage create bootable ElTorito CD-ROM using 'no emulation' mode
-
-
-The utility makes three passes over the source files:
-
- (1) The scanning pass, in which the names and extensions are
- checked for validity, and the names, extensions, sizes, dates,
- times and attributes are recorded internally. The files are not
- actually read during this pass.
-
- (2) The layout pass, in which the sizes and positions of
- directories, files and other items in the CD-ROM image are
- determined.
-
- (3) The writing pass, in which the files are actually read and the
- CD-ROM image is actually written to the specified file or
- device. The image is always written sequentially.
-
-If neither the -q nor the -v option is used, CDMAKE will display the
-volume label, size, number of files and directories and the total bytes
-in each at the end of the layout pass.
-
-If the -p option is used, and is not overridden by the -v option, then
-during the writing pass, CDMAKE will display the number of bytes still
-to be written to the CD-ROM image, updating it frequently. The number
-will decrease as the operation progresses, and will reach zero when the
-operation is complete.
-
-The operation of CDMAKE can be aborted by typing Ctrl-C when the utility
-is displaying text of any kind.
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