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Nothing too fancy
Authored by: mithras on May 15, '02 08:31:24AM
I was posting about this in the MacNN forums, but I'll drop the note here too. This little program - which does have a nifty interface, BTW - is just a wrapper around the command-line tool hdiutil. In particular, it does this sequence: hdiutil create mount_hfs (copy your files onto the disk image) hdiutil eject hdiutil resize hdiutil burn which is also what the Finder does. The only difference is that the program calls hdiutil burn -noforceclose, which doesn't close the disc. If I have time I'll work up a (free) applescript studio interface to do the same thing.

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Nothing too fancy
Authored by: gvitale on May 15, '02 12:19:37PM

Thank you very much: what can be done at the comand line should'n be done at the GUI, expecialy if it does cost money (as it will be rhe case here when the beta will expire).
Thanks again!!!



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I respectfully disagree
Authored by: robg on May 15, '02 01:00:32PM

If something can be done at the command line, I think it's perfectly fine to have a version that works in the GUI, even if it costs money. There will always be a percentage of OS X users (maybe even a majority percentage) who would prefer to stay away from the command line, and it's good that they have options available.

Personally, I'll probably choose to register this product, just because I find the concept of drag and drop much easier than starting a terminal and issuing a few commands whenever I want to burn something. If a freeware AppleScript comes along that does the same thing, I'd probably use that instead.

In general, if there's a way to gain GUI access to UNIX command-line functionality, that can only be a good thing for the Mac platform in general -- it's a good way to keep both the GUI and command line users happy!

-rob.



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I respectfully disagree
Authored by: gvitale on May 16, '02 04:37:40AM

Of course you are wright robg; what I mean is that for those of us that are not allergic to the command line, its a considerable save of money, energy and computer resources to use the built-in resources of Darwin. Maybe most people have big wallets, huge hard drives and unlimited memory, is that so? ;-)



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Most annoying
Authored by: JayBee on May 15, '02 12:21:15PM

According to the man pages for hdiutil, -noforceclose is actually the default behaviour for hdiutil burn.

Which means the functionality isn't just built in to the system but Apple decided to TURN IT OFF for disk burner.

I can understand the desire to make closing disks the default (My mum wouldn't realise you have to close a disk before it'll play in a CD player, so fair enough - it's the way you "expect" it to work), but to not even implement a check box...

I smell fat, plain brown envelopes labelled "Toast Insurance" and covered in Steve Jobs's fingerprints...

;-)



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