Joerg Schilling wrote:
The very fact you have to read the cdrecord man page in depth is the
issue.
This is strange, it seems that you did not realize that it is not possible
to use cdrw without reading it's man page. The CLI from cdrw seems to be
even worse than the one from cdrecord.
The online help from cdrw is not helpful but confusing.
This is starting to sound like a personal attack on you Jörg, and I
certainly don't mean it that way, but last time I was burning a CD, I
certainly thought I should try cdrecord, looked at the man page, did
cdrecord -?, and went back to `cdrw -i'. It works, I didn't have to
read the man page at all, I couldn't be arsed to work out how to drive
cdrecord. I hate all the option=xxx, -longoption, -xyz (can you merge
them or not ?), etc. dev=xx.yy.zz ? You what ? It all seems so
dd'ish, and people use standard option syntax these days. I used star
once, and felt the same way: there's no way I can remember the syntax.
I use ufsdump, gcp, or gtar these days.
Sorry, I know you contribute a lot to the community and respect what you
do, but I can't cope with these odd-ball eccentric commands.
Soz,
Rob
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