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 --- thomas@clark.net ---> http://www.clark.net/pub/thomas PBEM Eldritch --------> http://www.pbegames.com [TM4463-ORG] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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