proggy list................was Re: site FAQ - question missing...

Umm...........yeah...................that's a big problem.  Those of us
who swear by Tom's RTBT always know what's on the disk because it tells
us.  Now, I don't think that having the LNX-BBC do that at boot with
1000+ programs is going to sit well, but providing a file with a simple
listing (culled from the build scripts, perhaps automagically) would
certianly help--oh and a "type BLAH to find out what you have here"
would help too.

I'd write up the "scriptlet" thingy needed if I knew how or had the time
to learn...........

Drew Northup, N1XIM

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:30, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> 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.