Welcome to gcombust. gcombust is free software. Please see the file COPYING for details. For documentation, please see the files in the doc subdirectory. gcombust is a GTK+ frontend for mkisofs/mkhybrid/cdda2wav/cdlabelgen/cdrecord. For building and installation instructions please see the INSTALL file (short version: ./configure; make; make install-strip). RedHat .rpms, Debian .debs and Stampede .slps are available (it also compiles on Slackware, SuSe, etc). gcombust is also available in the NetBSD package collection and the FreeBSD ports collection. I should also compile on IRIX 6.2/6.5, HP-UX 10.20/11.00, Tru64, AIX 4.3.X and Solaris 2.5.1/2.6 (but might require a little tweaking from time to time). I maintain the Debian package but don't know anything about the others. Please see the gcombust homepage for links to binary packages. At this moment every release of gcombust isn't always very well tested; it would probably be wise to test it with the -dummy option at first to check that I haven't made any stupid errors. Also, it prints the command it's executing to stdout so you can look at it and maybe spot errors. Updates can be obtained from: http://www.iki.fi/jmunsin/gcombust (which should point to http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust) Requirements (the versions number are the ones I use, and the ones I have tested it with - others might work, too): GTK+ 1.2.x cdrtools-1.10 (or newer if I forgot to update this file) (cdrecord, mkisofs, mkhybrid, cdda2wav) http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html Use the mkisofs/mkhybrid and cdda2wav versions you get with cdrtools, they are the newest. mkisofs and mkhybrid have been merged in the latest cdrtools. cdlabelgen 1.5.0 http://www.red-bean.com/~bwf/software/cdlabelgen/ I love to recieve feedback/comments/ideas/bugreports (please mention what version of gcombust you are using!) at: jmunsin@iki.N0_SPAM.fi (jmunsin@abo.N0_SPAMfi) (please remove N0_SPAM part) NOTE: Please don't mail Joerg Schilling (the mkisofs/cdrecord author/maintainer) about bugs in gcombust. I doubt he has any interest in hearing about them. NOTE: Please see the NEWS file for more uptodate information. See the README.ms for more information about current multisession support. NOTE: If you decide to do a NLS translation of gcombust, it might be a good idea to mail me about it to make sure noone else is doing one for the same language. Flames to: /dev/null Some of the features: Burning on the fly, without making an image Tooltips to keep you from reading man pages (the tooltips are mostly from the cdrecord man page) Make creation of iso-images easy (support for making your own directory hierarchy on the image without the need for copying files/making symlinks) Maximize disk by hinting which directories/files to use (binpacking/knapsack) Audio CD creation wav -> audio CD audio CD -> wav audio CD direct copy Multisession support Bootable CD support Save/Load path selections (for always taking a backup of the same collection of files, etc) gettext/NLS support isocd-isocd direkt copy isocd->file Drag and Drop support via GTK primitive renaming of files