Date: 21 Apr 2002 23:11:32 -0700 From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> To: Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mark asks: Easy way to copy CD-ROM > MS-floppy? Message-ID: <87k7r0gt4b.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> In-Reply-To: <3CC34AB7.D389E49B@earthlink.net> References: <3CC0CAE5.A8A56319@earthlink.net> <877kn1ptad.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <3CC26E9E.1F131018@earthlink.net> <87u1q4rfw0.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <3CC3349F.477E899F@earthlink.net> <87it6ku27b.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <3CC34AB7.D389E49B@earthlink.net>
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Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> writes:
| Your reply was too late
Sorry for the delays, but I was on a trip this past weekend. Just got back.
| It worked perfectly (see, newbies are adaptable).
And *that's* for accusing me of being redundant. :)
| Anyone who thinks a cli system is as productive is simply kidding
| themselves.
Actually, the strength of a CLI is scripting and flexibility. The friendliness
of the interface is directly proportional to how much you have to babysit the
system---at least, so far. Hopefully, progress will solve that.
| One small example: double-click <...name_here...>.cue (by file association,
| this launches EAC with the cue sheet loaded), and then click "Make CDR" (this
| burns a CDR with the files named in the cue sheet with CD-text -- track
| titles, etc.), then, work on something else while the CDR is being made --
| and I didn't have to touch the keyboard. Just "click-click", then
| "click". **NO** cli system can be *that* efficient.
And yet, assuming that you had a script for this, you could just type
$ sear whatever.cue &
to run it in the background. With shell-completion (most of the shells have
that), you could shorten this to, say
$ sear wh<tab>
and run it that way. And you didn't have to hunt for the mouse, or even remove
your hands from the keyboard. :)
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