[abcde] Re: [vorbis] What we need to make it

[craig duncan <duncan@nycap.rr.com>]

Robert Woodcock wrote:
> 
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> 
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:21:50PM -0500, craig duncan wrote:
> > Off topic, but . . . I use abcde all the time . . . and the one thing i
> > _really_ hate about it is when you try to stop it.
> 
> A simple ^C will stop any version of abcde I've released in its tracks.
> 1.9.x will even pick up where it left off.
> 
> > When you kill off the process that's doing the encoding, another process
> > that's already been started then deletes your wav file (if you've
> > configured it to do this after it's finished encoding).
> 
> You must be manually kill(1)'ing (the wrong) one of abcde's subshells.
> If you don't have access to the terminal you started abcde from (!?), try
> pstree -p to get the correct parent PID.
> 
> If there's something else going on, I'll be happy to help you diagnose
> things further elsewhere.
> --
> Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org

A simple test confirms that ^C (abcde version 1.9.6) deletes the
temporary directory and all the yet to be enocded wav files in it.  I'm
surprised that this wouldn't be apparent to anyone who uses it.  I'm
running Debian Linux (woody).  Is this, as it seems, simply the way that
it works or is there something about Debian that would make this
different than how you seem to think it works?

craig duncan

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