Re: site FAQ - question missing...

begin  Niall O Broin  quotation:
> Indeed it's not. My point was merely that lnx-bbc, as the boot
> message says, is a tool for those who know what they're doing or if
> they don't know, have the nous to investigate the matter in a
> reasoned way. 'man cdrecord' would be the very first place to start
> in such a reasoned investigation and as you pointed out, it would
> have answered the question. If someone is unwilling/unable to carry
> out such a reasoned investigation, I just don't think that lnx-bbc
> is the tool for him.

	Well gawrsh, Niall.  Aren't you the fancy-pants linucks
expert?  The LNX-BBC is handy, small, and powerful.  Just because you
objected to making it more useful to people doesn't mean that it can't
be.

	One of the things we are trying to work on is the user
experience of the LNX-BBC.  Before you go waving your bloody shirt of
command-line veteran status, that doesn't mean *removing*
functionality or expressive power.  It simply means that we provide
the guidance that makes it more useful to people.

	Consider that there are easily a thousand programs on this
little disc.  How many people really know which ones are there?  The
vast majority of the IRC channel traffic is people asking "Hey, could
you put <program> on the BBC?  Then it would really ROCK!", to which
we usually say something like "It's had that since 1.5!"  We
definitely have an interface problem in how to communicate to the user
what software is available.  This is universal across Unix experience
levels.

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