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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>
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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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