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Date:      Sat, 24 May 1997 19:16:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cd9660 w/ Joliet extensions
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970524191207.3257C-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199705241846.LAA11110@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Sat, 24 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Hmmm.  I've had many people tell me that they're very very happy that
> > the FreeBSD CD does not have an autorun.inf file and that this feature
> > is the most evil thing they ever experienced in Win95. :-)
> 
> Only if it's not correctly implemented.

Although, I would be willing to bet it's the fact that things
start happening without an explicit command from the user "run
this program" that bothers people, not the fact that it's
incorrectly implemented.

The auto-run feature, can, of course, be disabled by pressing
some key while putting in the CD (is it what?  Shift?  I can't
remember off-hand... :(.


--
Outnumbered?  Maybe.  Outspoken?  Never!
tIM...HOEk




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