Hi, me: > > Media-Current: CD-RW > > ... > > Media-Msinfo: 77434,87416 Bill Davidsen: > is there any benefit to adding "Media-" to every line?
I asked myself the same. But i decided to stay with that proposal because it allows to put it into a larger frame of info messages about various topics. One could want to report info about the drive or its usage status. Redundancy is not in vain, after all. It confirms that you got the right line in your hands. "Current:" for example, is a bit ambivalent and would need an extension like "Current-Media:" or "Current-Profile:" anyway. So if we need lengthy names for the sake of uniqueness why not start a clean name space layout ? It won't become a tapeworm language like .xmi . After all, it is only an illustration of what i would experience as a helpful media info command. A soup cooked from mail headers, /proc filesystem, and what i saw of current cdrecord -minfo and -atip. Important for me would only be that it is unambigous and does not demand too much of state info in the program which consumes the messages. That's why i propose to tag each line of output. So it is friendly to grep, sed and awk. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
