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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:45:17 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: user friendly creation of CDs (was: Re: patches for tosha?) 
Message-ID:  <199908212345.QAA42449@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Aug 1999 01:05:15 %2B0200." <19990822010515.A33373@saturn.kn-bremen.de> 

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Hi,
In my case is a lot easier to customize a simple shell script and use it.
Is just that gcombust comes from linux perhaps if I keep using
I can get over my hurdle 8)

	Have Fun Guys!



> Heh.  I see, you want a program that one could use without
> having to know _anything_.  Your right thats not what gcombust is,
> but its still useful for those of us who know `something'...
> 
> On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 05:02:07PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> > Yes, I tried gcombust and opted for the command line approach
> > 
> > gcombust looks great ;however, I expect for user firiendly land
> > less knobs for instance: 
> > 
> > burn iso 9660 cd 
> > Select files or directories
> > type of CD : CD-R , CD-RW
> > 
> > then pull the appropiate information for buffering and
> > optimal speed from a database. 
> 
>  Not sure a database would be enough for that, as these not only
> vary for each system (hardware) but also depend on
> 
> . the type of files to be written (big ones or many small ones)
> and of course the performance of the disk/controller/fs their on
> (and the net if their not local)
> . current and near-future system load (for example any cronjobs
> coming up that will be hammering the source disk, or network?)
> 
>  (is that all?)  of course you could reduce the problems by simply
> always creating an image file but then you can't write CDs once
> your low on free space.
> 
> >...  Sometimes being the hacker
> > of the house is not an easy task 8)
> 
>  :)  Still i'd like to know of any solution you come up with...
> 
>  Regards,
> -- 
> Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
> (remove dot foo from address to reply)

-- 

 Amancio Hasty
 hasty@rah.star-gate.com




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