On Wednesday 30 March 2005 3:53 pm, you wrote: > > 'dev=/dev/cdrom' would have been confusing, but something like > > "Impossible SCSI address [-2, -2, -2] - have you specified dev= > > properly?" would have been good. > > Well, first you did call cdrecord with a _wrong_ dev= parameter and should > not be amazed by the results. RTFM for the correct parameters.....
Not amazed, but disappointed. RTFM is all very well, but making a program behave helpfully in the face of improper input is matter of good taste, particularly if that input is subsequently processed in a relatively obscure way, as in the translation from /dev/cdrom to -2,-2,-2: You already warn about the image file being too large before trying to write it, I think. I try to make my software give helpful messages if someone gets it wrong (so the program is in some senses an extension of the manual) but I also try to name the options in a way to avoid confusion: The parameter 'dev' is short for 'device' which has long meant /dev/ files on Unix, so I think the confusion is quite reasonable. Calling the parameter something like 'scsiaddr=' would probably have been a better choice. Still, it's your code, and I have to thank you for making it available, because when everything's right, it works well. > Solaris is currently free of charge for any type of usage and it will be > Open Source for everybody very soon (I already have access to the Mm. Certainly the new kernel-level debugging facilities are very tempting, but I think driver support isn't quite as good. I'll think about it. Anyway, I'd better stop hassling you. Thanks again. Tim -- Most incoming HTML email is caught by my SPAM FILTER. http://www.baverstock.org.uk/tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
