The reason is cdrecord is nolonger maintained wodim is a fork that was created for an other project that is still activly maintained. Wodim has an almost identical command line syntax and in most cases there is a symlink or alias created to the to emulate cdrecord On Oct 21, 2012 12:37 PM, "Stephen John Smoogen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21 October 2012 07:17, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gents, > > i'm a bit ;) confused as of the current state of CD burning on our > > platform. Back in the days it was cdrecord, now ... i'm not sure... I see > > there is cdrtools and cdrkit... but neither(?) seemed to be included in > the > > main repo.. > > Please advise. > > Thank you > > AZ > > I believe the version shipped these days is called wodim for reasons I > don't know exactly. > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." > Linus Torvalds > "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh > so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I > recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd >
