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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:11:37 -0500
From:      Mark Thomas <thomas@clark.net>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cdcontrol and environment vars - opinions please.
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.2.20010116100905.00a69e30@mail.clark.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpwvbvk2j8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <Josef Karthauser's message of "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:19:21 %2B0000"> <20010116121921.A632@tao.org.uk>

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At 03:14 PM 1/16/01 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> writes:
>> How many people are using cdcontrol and defining the drive name
>> using one of the following environment variables: MUSIC_CD, CD_DRIVE,
>> DISC and CDPLAY?
>> 
>> I've no idea why there are so many different options - it seems a
>> bit daft to me.
>> 
>> Recently we added another one: CDROM.  What I'd like to do is
>> deprecate use of the others and adopt CDROM as standard.
>
>Heh - I'm the one who added suport for $CDROM, and I had no idea the
>others were supported - $CDROM was so self-evident (think of $TAPE,
>used by pax(1), mt(1), tar(1), dump(8) and restore(8)) that it didn't
>occur to me to check if it already supported other variables (plus,
>they weren't documented).
>
>I totally agree with the idea of deprecating all but $CDROM.

To be picky, CD-ROM is not equal to CD-DA. I don't know if it really matters though. 


Mark
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