On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:02:20PM +0000, Larry Marshall wrote:
> Vic wrote:
> >
> > Why did cdrecord screw up a cd that I tried to
> > make and xcdroast did not?
>
> You got lucky? I haven't looked closely at xcdroast but all of the
> GUI cdburner programs I've looked at use cdrecord to do the real
> work. All they do is hand cdrecord the proper commandline
> parameters.
>
> What was being suggested to you by someone else, and I concur, is that
> this extra layer of "version 0.95" coding causes more trouble than its
> worth. cdrecord has been stable for quite a while.
>
> Cheers --- Larry
>
I agree - I usually just use cdrecord (an hour or so with the man page and
maybe a website or two was more than sufficient for getting up to speed with
the basics) and mkisofs - in the opposite order of course.
But there are times that the gui makes it easier. I very infrequently need
to make a hybrid cd. I really don't do it enough to make RTFM every time
worthwhile. In this case and others (bootable cd's, reuseing cd-wr's, etc) I
like gcombust. It allows me to get done what i need to, without me having to
try to remember or look up how to do everything each time.
So, for some uses, that 0.95 code is sometimes worth it.
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