Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:44:35 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Carl Delsey <cdelsey@qwest.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting Message-ID: <20050802154435.GF595@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <42EF8819.5000306@mac.com> References: <20050801203145.GA830@twelvegates.homeip.net> <20050802002003.GX75379@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050802050818.GA69657@localhost.local> <42EF03C2.6060209@mac.com> <20050802054603.GA69870@localhost.local> <42EF8819.5000306@mac.com>
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:50:01AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Carl Delsey wrote: > [ ... ] > >You're right. My mistake. That's what I get for using my eyes to search a > >document instead of using the search feature. :-) > > No worry: growisofs' manpage and the way it uses command line arguments is > not entirely consistent.... :-) > > To some extent, Andy doesn't want to fully document everything to encourage > people to either "use the source, luke", or to create more user-friendly > (but seperate) frontends like k3b. I don't fully understand the mindset of > not making a program fully documented or oriented towards its users, but > Andy has been reasonably responsive to integrating FreeBSD changes for the > port, so I'm not going to complain... > I do not agree with that statement, Andy helped us to clearly document growisofs in the Handbook, it's just a shame people hardly read the DVD section. Regarding the complex or "invisible" options, they should not be used/exist if DVD burners firmware or DVD media were without bugs :( Marc
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