> Joerg Schilling writes:
>> > Well we will just have to disagree on that, for me cdrw(1) is very
>> > simple and its list of options is just right
>> > for me; even though I hardly use any of them.
>>
>> For me cdrw is very non-intuitive. Cdrecord on the other side works
>> completely
>> intuitive and it does not need the non-intuitive options you need with
>> cdrw.
>
> Count me among the folks who don't agree.
I disagree even further. see below ..
> The fact that "dev=1,0,0" seems to mean the same thing as
> /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 is perhaps intuitive if you understand the inner
> structure, but why should I have to? Why shouldn't "dev=c1t0d0p0"
> just work as expected?
>
> It isn't as though any of the 37 pages in cdrecord(1) explains this.
>
> Merely supporting the native device names (instead of some sort of
> canonical, but baffling, SCSI naming structure) would, I think, go a
> _long_ way to helping cdrecord users. I really don't want to learn
> how to use more than one name for any of my devices.
[ rant begins ]
This is just another in a long line of failures on the part of software
developers to take into consideration the user. Why should the human need
to know how the computer is built just to use it? Its a silly notion that
we need to learn the language of the computer to program it, we need to feed
it, cool it, continuously monitor its frail nature.
If I want to burn a bloody DVD then I should type :
cdrecord foo.iso
and thats it. thats all. Let the software do the job of probing devices
and figuring out what is available and then it can ask me :
I'm sorry, you seem to have multiple ways to do this.
Did you mean :
[ 1 ] use the SONY DVD unit ?
or
[ 2 ] use the Pioneer unit ?
I found both but the SONY unit currently has blank DVD+R/DL media
in it? Should I just use the SONY ? Let me know by entering a
1 or a 2 please :
Thats a _trivial_ example of dealing with the task in human terms.
The fact that its on a console or terminal session is just another slap
in the face to the human. Really I should just be able to sit back 20 feet
and then say, as in speak, at my computer and say "make me an ISO9660 image
of the files in /export/zfs/foo and make sure that Windows users can use it
also. Then burn it for me and let me know when your done."
That is my idea of a baby step in the right direction.
The whole Linux/OpenSolaris/Mac/OS whatever these days do little to
actually help the person.
[ end of rant ]
Dennis Clarke
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