cdv -- Command

Interface to CD-ROM devices
cdv [directory]

The script cdv provides a easy-to-use interface to the set of commands that
interrogate an ISO-9660 CD-ROM.  It is designed to spare you the trouble of
having to remember the names and syntax used by each of these commands.  If
you name  a directory on its  command line, cdv uses  that directory within
the CD-ROM's file system as its  root file system; otherwise, it begins its
work in the CD-ROM's default  root directory.  The advantage of this option
is that CD-ROM file systems tend to hold many files, and reading the CD-ROM
can be quite slow (depending upon  the speed of your system and of your CD-
ROM  reader); making  directory the  root directory  lessens the  number of
files cdv must paw through before it finds the material that interests you.
Obviously, you must have some idea  of the CD-ROM's contents before you can
use this option.

After you invoke cdv, it displays the prompt:

    Command:

Enter the command that you want cdv to execute, as follows:

cd directory
     Change directory.  directory is the directory to enter.  This can be a
     relative  path  name or  absolute  path name.   As  with the  COHERENT
     command cd,  you can use  `.' and `..' as  synonyms for, respectively,
     the current directory and the parent directory.

G directory
     Read the contents of directory.

g file
     Get file; copy it into the current directory.

N
n    Because  the contents  of a  CD-ROM's directory may  not fit  onto the
     screen,  cdv lets  you display  a directory's contents  one page  at a
     time.  These commands display the next page of the current directory's
     contents.

P
p    Display the previous page of the current directory's contents.

Q
q    Quit.

v file
     View file, which  is on the CD-ROM.  cdv displays  file with the pager
     named in  the environmental variable  $PAGER. If this  variable is not
     defined, it uses more.

!    Invoke  the shell.   To return  to cdv,  type exit,  to exit  from the
     shell.

See Also

CD-ROM,
cdview,
commands

Notes

cdv was written by Chris Hilton.

© 2012 by Stephen A. Ness