On Fri, March 28, 2008 9:56 am, David Brown wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:49:42AM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: > >>But to remind everyone, cdparanoia was the original subject in this >>thread, and cdparanoia is CLI ... a CLI program that defaults to putting >>out smiley faces to stderr on success. > > As do an increasing number of CLI programs. The studies and human factors > that cause people to need progress have nothing to do with CLI vs GUI, > it's > because the users are human. >
I have to admire you. I personally would not have the temerity to argue that my personal preferences are superior to the thought-through defaults of the founders of Unix. > You're in the minority, even among CLI users, for wanting slience. > Absolutely. If I wanted to be in the majority, I'd use Windoze. > But, cdparanoia does exactly what we're saying it should, it has a --quiet > option for scripting, but prints out progress in the default case. > Default behavior is exactly what we're talking about. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
