RE: Program Help Needed

["Creager, Robert S" <CreagRS@LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM>]

I've attached a couple of Perl scripts which I use to burn CD's.  Basically,
they show two different ways to burn CD's.  "make_cd" will first create an
ISO image from "mkisofs", and then use "cdrecord" to burn the CD.
"make_multi" will burn a multi session CD 'on the fly' using a pipe from
"mkisofs" to "cdrecord".  

There is some locking in "make_cd" which prevents multiple people from
trying to burn more than 1 CD at a time, as this is used at work on a
'shared' CD.

Just a couple of examples to maybe get someone started.

Cheers,
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege2@earthlink.net] 
> Sent: January 16, 2003 7:21 AM
> To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Subject: Program Help Needed
> 
> 
> One of you that is good at this sort of thing might take on a helpful 
> project for me.
> 
> I am now networked (thanks to Rob Creager) and can see the 
> data taking 
> computer from my Linux office computer(s).
> 
> I need a script that will do the following to write a nights 
> data from a 
> single computer to CDs:
> 
> 1) prompt for a directory   -  typical  /mnt/leejohn/newfol
> 2) prompt for a starting file name. Just the last 4 numbers 
> before the 
> .fits should be enough.  I now turn on well before dusk and 
> just take data 
> until dawn.  There are "bad" files at the beginning and end 
> of a run.  I 
> will typically examine the files to see where the good ones start and 
> end.  Or whether the data is so bad that I discard the whole evening.
> 3) prompt for an ending file name.  Note the data usually 
> wraps around 
> midnight, so 4 digits are needed.  So with files with names like 
> hira2654509.fits I might give a starting file of 4500 and an 
> ending file of 
> 5017
> 4) prompt to load the first disk.
> 5) write 40 V and 40 I files to the first disk.
> 6) prompt for the second disk.
> 7) continue until done.
> 8) if there is room, write all the other files in the directory to 
> disk.  This is only a couple of megabytes but it is useful to 
> record all 
> the programs used in the data taking in case I later want to 
> know which 
> version of the program I was running.
> 
> A script in perl or bash would be OK for me.  It does not 
> have to work the 
> first time as I can debug it.  I just don't know all the 
> tricks to get 
> something like this going.  A later modification will be to 
> do the same 
> thing using DVD disks.  Here one disk will usually do the 
> evening.  If 
> someone wants to take this on, let me know and I will work with you 
> privately.  In general I like to spread the projects around 
> so preference 
> is given to someone who has not done a project with me 
> before.  Hopefully 
> one of you will step forward.
> 
> Tom Droege  
> 
>

make_cd

make_multi