Announcements

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23.04.2001

Uploaded some fixes (for KisoCD and KisoCDII) which enable them 
to work with the new cdrecord 1.10 (cdrtools 1.10).

Remember to call 
  kisocdII.sh -c110
if you use this version.

Bugfix for KisoCD 0822a (latest official version for KDE2) available 
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Sorrily I don't have time to finish work on the new version of KisoCD
at the moment, so here is just a one-file-bugfix; now you should be 
able to include files with special characters in their names again.

Please take a look at the homepage and the help-files for more info.

KisoCDII 0822a is out since 22.08.
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This new prerelease of the KDE2-port of KisoCD fixes the segfault-problems
that came up with the latest beta (1.92) of KDE2. Please take a look at the 
homepage and the help-files for more info. 

Furthermore there are some new RPMs available since today.

KisoCD 0.6.3 is out since 29.07.
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As there are important things for me to do, updates won't be that often as 
before. Nevertheless I plan create a port to KDE2 the next three weeks that's 
based on Kurt Granroths new kapptemplate for KDE2, to make everything 
(including documentation) install correctly.

Version 0.6.3(29.07.2000):

     * Bugfix: temporary files in /tmp/ were not removed.
     * Bugfix: directories/files containing '&', '<', '>', '|' and '"'
       could not be handled.
     * It is possible to use cdrecord/mkisofs version 1.9.X and later by
       calling "kisocd.sh" or "kisocd" using the option "-c109". This
       also makes it possible to have '=' included in filenames.
     * Most of the non-english documentation has been temporarily removed
       as it is not up-to-date.

KisoCD 0.6.2 is out since 28.05.
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Version 0.6.2(28.05.2000):

     * bugfix: previous versions didn't recognize when only the
       latex-document had changed and so didn't allow saving.
     * KisoCD allows you to configure some parts of its behaviour which
       might have annoyed you previously (windows popping up and things
       like that).

I plan to release an updated alpha for KDE2 the next days, too. Please 
remind me of that if you want to have it but I've forgotten to do it...
However, there won't be a separate announcement.

The third alpha-version (0515a) of KisoCDII has been released
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KisoCDII is the KDE2-version of KisoCD; there are few differences at the 
moment. Note that things may not work as you expect and that KDE2 is not
usable for every-day-work yet. Please use KDE 1.1.X and KisoCD instead.

This version has been tested with the "konfucius"-release  (version 1.90) 
of KDE2. It should provide about the same functionality as KisoCD version 
0.6.1. Languages beside english don't work, other things should be OK but 
are not thorougly tested.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to test drag'n'drop as konqueror crashed on the
test. This crash wasn't related to KisoCD and it worked in the previous
versions of KisoCDII and KDE2, so I think it still is OK.

You can use "kdesu" instead of a shellscript in an xterm to log in as root.
If you prefer this method, copy "kisocdII.desktop_kdesu" to "kisocdII.desktop".

To install it you need to do more than the usual three steps, this time it's
  make -f Makefile.dist
  ./configure
  make
  make install

KisoCD 0.6.1 is out since 10.05.
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Version 0.6.1(10.05.2000):

     * bugfix: 0.6.0 didn't compile on some systems (for some reason
       regex.h doesn't include the things it needs for itself; however,
       the error happened on SuSE 6.1, but not on 6.3 and 6.4).
     * First parts of help available in french.
     * KisoCD uses two different places for storing images and the
       directories where it puts symbolic links (needed for multisession
       and bootable CDs). That enables you to choose a dir on a
       vfat-system for the (big) imagefile.

KisoCD 0.6.0 is out since 07.05.
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This version was delayed some time, but finally it is finished.
New ports for KDE2 will hopefully follow, depending on how bored
I am ;-)

After copying of data-CDs is made, the three major goals for the future
are:
 1. Make it possible to delete single files on a data-CD.
 2. Update the documentation.
 3. Porting to KDE2.

As stated below, I've split up KisoCD into modules. Well, my approach may
not be the way a "real" programmer would have done it, but it works.
So, if someone is willing to write a module for creating or copying
audio-CDs, mail me!

Changes:

     * Huge code-reorganization and renaming of things. KisoCD now
       consists of modules for different tasks which use certain shared
       things (up to now there are only two modules, one for creation and
       one for duplication of data-CDs. Maybe someone will code one for
       audio-CDs...).
     * Ability to copy data-CDs.
     * bugfix: KisoCD didn't take the english file for the quick
       introduction if none of the three preferred languages of the user
       was found.
     * Martin Kerz, who already made the german translation of the docs,
       created a very cool icon for KisoCD. Thanks a lot!
     * Fixed a bug that's as old as KisoCD...it took about a year until
       it was recognized AND reported...(when one or more of the IDs was
       left blank there were errors on loading such a file or burning a
       CD using this settings).
     * Removed the "-a"-Option from mkisofs' command-line. Old versions
       needed it (but those shouldn't be used anymore!), the current
       stable one ignores it, but the the new alpha makes it an error...
     * Francois Massonneau translated the short intro to french. Many
       thanks!
     * minor bugfixes

KisoCD 0.5.7 is out since 09.04.
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1.1 Changes

Version 0.5.7(09.04.2000):

     * bugfix: Errors occured when filenames included special characters 
       like apostrophe and braces. Creating directories and renaming files 
       to names which contain such characters has also been made possible.
     * cdDoc also produces front page for inlay. Thanks to Beate!
     * Multisession: KisoCD no longer stops like there is an error when 
       cdrecord emitts a warning. Instead one is able to take a look at the 
       output and decide what to do.
     * Shows umounts message when there are problems.
     * Bugfix or workaround? When using the maximum size that the 
       kernel-include (constant SHMMAX) gives for the buffer from mkisofs to 
       cdrecord, there is an error. Jörg Schilling stated that one could 
       actually only use 4k less than SHMMAX tells...so I do it.
     * Included code which helps reporting errors concerning external calls.

The second alpha-version (0309a) of KisoCDII is released
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Now KisoCDII does also work with my post-KRASH-version of KDE2 (there have 
been problems with khtml and the fileselectors); furthermore it should now
behave like KisoCD-0.5.6 (exceptions see below).

KisoCDII is the KDE2-version of KisoCD; there are few differences at the 
moment. Note that things may not work as you expect and that KDE2 is not
usable for every-day-work yet. Please use KDE 1.1.X and KisoCD instead.

Languages beside english don't work, online-help may not work, the 
quick introduction does not work and the framework for the latex-file is not
copied to the place where KisoCDII expects it. The other things should be OK 
but are not thorougly tested.

I'm now using "kdesu" instead of a shellscript in an xterm to log in as root.
If you prefer the old method, copy "kisocdII.desktop_su" to "kisocdII.desktop".

To install it you need to do more than the usual three steps, this time it's
  make -f Makefile.dist
  ./configure
  make
  make install