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


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