Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

[hzi]

Good people of the community-       Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when they made dselect?     I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a simple path (e.g., /cdrom/debian/potato) to some files I burned on a CD! Is there any easy way? Any documentation?     It seems irrational that developers didn't make it accept a simple path to files...I can't install a browser in Debian, so here I am, using Windows...     Somebody help!!       Thanks     Henry