[dvdvol] Fwd: feedback to your best of dvd '03 (yes, readme!)

[Aaron Cannon]

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>From: Valentin Spirik <valentin_spirik at yahoo.de>
>Subject: feedback to your best of dvd '03 (yes, readme!)
>Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:25:10 +0100
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>
>hello there,
>
>i really like the gutenberg archive - that is why i am giving you some 
>feedback to your best of dvd '03.
>
>i recently downloaded it via p2p (your bittorrent link), and that part 
>went fine. but there are two major problems i see/experience with the dvd, 
>i think your dvd/content needs some work for the next release:
>
>i) look and feel (under mac os x) is very messy
>ii) some .zip files don't expand
>
>
>i) the look and feel thing...
>
>under os x (10.3.8) all you see, once you open the disc image (or burn it 
>to dvd), is a rather messy something of folders and files (like: ACCESS - 
>AUTORUN_INF.BAK - AUTORUN.INF -DONATE_HOWTO.TXT - ETEXT00 - ...). some 
>readme files even appear to be unix-programes (at least they have these 
>"exec." icons) - so at first one wouldn't want to double click those 
>readme files... and then it takes quite a while to find the two most 
>important files: the ones that list all titles and authors. my suggestion:
>
>whether on os x or any other operating system, the only thing a user 
>should see at first when he or she opens the disc image/dvd are those two 
>files (they should be called something like "all titles" and "all 
>authors"). the rest could be hidden im some folder called "archive" or 
>something.
>
>this is important: if you really want people to use the dvd it has to have 
>a nice look and feel to it. i was planing to copy the dvd for some of my 
>friends, but i just can't give this dvd to anyone, it just takes to much 
>time to find the information you are looking for...
>
>ii) the problem with some .zip files...
>
>this is very sad: i can't expand some .zip files, the cause is a mystery 
>to me. for example: robert louis stevenson's "dr. jekyll and mr. hide 
>(#1)" (HYDE10.ZIP) just can't be expanded (unstuffed), while the next file 
>"dr. jekyll and mr. hide (#2)" (HYDEA10.ZIP) can be! (i get the stop sign 
>and an "error 1 - operation not permitted" message while trying to expand 
>HYDE10.ZIP - that is after copying the zipped version to my hard-drive, in 
>case you were wondering what i was trying to do... the permissions for the 
>file in questions are the same as the ones for the file that works... very 
>strange... and unfortunately there are some other titles with the same 
>problem...
>
>i really want to help you to improve a great project - the dvd, at least 
>under mac ox x, has the feel of some early beta or alpha version of some 
>potentially great program - that's a real shame considering all the work 
>that went into digitizing those texts!
>
>i hope this helps to improve the project.
>
>greetings from berlin,
>
>valentin spirik
>



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