gregjohn wrote:
> I want to create a CD with a bunch of files on it.  I want to make it easy for
> the user, regardless of OS, to be able to grab subsets of the files.  If we were
> talking about books, say all the ones by Chris Cason or all the ones about
> povray.
> 
> I'm wondering if there's some technology out there that can do this? Python
> scripts? Windows Shortcuts?

So you have several *overlapping* sets of stuff?

Well, you could write a Bash script (which will, AFAIK, work with Linux, 
BSD, MacOS X, Solaris, HP-UX...) and a batch file (which will work with 
MS-DOS, MS Windows, and presumably ReactOS). The fun part is going to be 
deciding where to copy the files to; neither scripting language provides 
any easy way to do this.

Alternatively, you could try writing something in Java. This has a 
reasonable probability of working on any half-modern OS, and provides 
ample GUI capabilities for asking the user exactly which set(s) of files 
they want, and where to put them.

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