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Author:       avallino@diff.org (Andrea Vallinotto)
Uploader:     avallino diff org (Andrea Vallinotto)
Type:         disk/cdrom
Version:      1.5
Replaces:     disk/cdrom/IdentCDR.lha
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

This small tool checks the ATIP (Absolute Time In Pre-groove) of a CD-R/W media.
Usually this area is used by CD-R/W manufacturers to encode their brand, and
some other useful stuff, like type of media and minimum and maximum recording
speed. (Not every CD-R/W has the last information, try and see).
It also gives you some additional data, like maximum capacity of the CD-R/W,
maximum allowed recording capacity (that is always a bit less than the first
one), name of volume, publisher, software used for burning, etc...

See the included documentation (IdentCDR.doc) for additional information!

NEW TO VERSION 1.5: Now IdentCDR uses a 'brainfile' named IdentCDR_Brain. Future
updates of IdentCDR will only need the brainfile.

The information about ATIP encoding can be found at:
http://www.world.sony.com/Electronics/CD-R/index.html

If IdentCDR can't identify your support, please mail me the printed values.
It should look like:

Brand unknown or no CD-R! Values are: M 97, S 29, F 55

Version history:

1.5	New distribution format! Now IdentCDR has a brainfile, used to store the
	identification information. So future updates will only need the
	brainfile, not the whole program.
	Fixed a typo in this doc.
	Some more entries: 64 slots.

1.4	Now prints some information about the volume name, creator and such of
	the first session; thanks to Andrzej Boreczko for some help and
	encouraging me.
	Can (and will) correctly disinguish between CD-R and CD-RW; thanks to 
	Stephen White for hinting this. This feature will work on CD burners
	only, no CD-ROM.
	Added display on the titlewindow of how many slots are available.
	Added new entries: 60 slots, about 56-58 entries (= different brands),
	Fixed a typo in the entries database.

1.3	Some more entries: 54 slots, about 50 entries (TDK and Mitsubishi have
	two slots) .
	Reworked command-line interface.
	New commands (both from CLI and Workbench): DUMP and DEBUG.
	(actually, DEBUG was already there in 1.2, but it was hidden).

1.2	Added a small reqtools GUI.
	Added reading tooltypes from icon.
	Added recording length discovery/display.
	Now checks for 'prohibited' values. See the above URL for explanations.
	Finally found out how to get exec device informations from a volume
	specification (like CD1:). BPCL sucks!!!
	No longer displays obtained values on the Shell. Is this a problem for
	anyone ?
	Executable is indeed shorter than 1.1, because in 1.1 I linked some
	useless math libraries; IdentCDR is long about a tenth of the Windoze
	counterpart. But if anybody wants it, I can supply with a 300K version
	(18K of code and 282K of useless junk, just to make you happy).
	Really knows 41 brands, because FUJI uses two slots.

1.1	Fixed memory leak (46 bytes not freed).
	New method for those drives who can't use READ_TOC_PMA_ATIP.
	Some more sanity checks to ensure returned data is valid.
	Currently knows 42 brands (are these all ?). 

1.0 	Initial release
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