From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 2 15:44:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B506C16A430 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:44:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74EC43D45 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:44:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j72FiZL2079814; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:44:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j72FiZFV001550; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:44:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j72FiZ6V001549; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:44:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:44:35 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20050802154435.GF595@gothic.blackend.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42EF8819.5000306@mac.com> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Carl Delsey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:44:37 -0000 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