Re: Empty "Programming in Ada 2005" CD-ROM?

[Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>]

Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> writes:

>> On Jul 16, 3:58 am, Jacob Sparre Andersen <spa...@nbi.dk> wrote:
>>> Is my computer completely wrong?  Or can it be true that the CD-ROM in
>>> Barnes' "Programming in Ada 2005" only contains these two files:
>>>
>>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    43 2001-07-16 21:29 autorun.inf
>>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 40960 2002-12-17 14:31 udfrchk.exe
>>>
>> The CD-ROM contains eight *.pdf files and Readme.tx file on top
>> directory. The nested directory contains sources and executables and
>> more Ada sources at the further nested directory.
>
> Considering that UDF is supported in Linux from 2.6 upwards and in
> Windows from Vista, distributing a UDF disc seems a bit premature of
> the publisher. And expecting people to install a driver from a book CD
> ... well, bad attitude. Furthermore I don't see the advantages of UDF
> vs ISO 9660 if one is only distributing 7 files with (presumably)
> short 7 bit file names.

No good on a Mac either -- unless the user is prepared to shell out
$50 for a reader tool (he free one I found didn't work.) I went to the
publisher's web site, no errata page I could see but I left a message
suggesting they at least put the CD content on their site!