>From: csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> If you believe that the man page should be rewritten, you are welcome >> to do the job! >> >> I would be happy if at least some of the cdrtools users leave their >> attitute of only waiting for being supplied with free software.
>Since the discussion drifted to language, I'd like to comment on the >following cdrecord output: >Track 01: 5 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 10.6x. 2.47% done, >estimate finish Sat Oct 26 04:57:16 2002 >I believe "estimate finish" is better rendered as "estimated finish", >unless the phrase expands to "I estimate the burn will finish at [*]". >Otherwise I tend to read it as "The burn's estimated finish is at [*]", >where "estimated" is used as a participle modifiying the noun "finish." >Constructions similar to this would be "unwritten law" or "estimated >time of arrival" (ETA). The text is not from cdrecord but from mkisofs and has been writtn by Eric Youngdale - a nativ English speaking american. Jörg EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]