Cdw is a ncurses based alternative to more famous tools. As a ncurses application it can be used on system with no X installed but as it has a menu based user interface it might be easier to use than the command line tools. In fact, cdw is just a frontend for cdrecord/wodim (for blanking CD-RW discs, writing data to single- or multi-session CD disc and single-session DVD discs) and mkisofs/genisoimage (for creating ISO images from selected files).
If you -- like me -- have difficulties in remembering the options of different CLI tools, you might like to try this small application. It is available at least in the repositories of Ubuntu and Debian testing (but not yet in the stable release).
If it is not included in your distribution's repositories, you can always get the source from the Sourceforge.
See also previous articles on text mode applications!
2 comments:
Sadly though it doesn't appear to recognise DVD's, it treats them as CD's with a max capacity of 700mb.
Greg
@redandwhite
There is F4 hotkey for changing maximal size that is printed at the bottom of cdw window. You can select "DVD" size in dialog window.
This is not the same as automatic recognition of disc type, and cdw can't check how much space is left on your optical disc, but you can use this to see how large would be iso image created from selected files.
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