On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Matthew Talbert <ransom1...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > 2) $APPDATA\Sword (preferred location) > > 3) $HOME\.sword (this needs to be deprecated under windows in favour of > the above - and it needs engine support added to look for the above) > > GS uses this now, but would use 2) if engine support was added. > > > 4) $ALLUSERSPROFILE\Sword > > GS uses ALLUSERSPROFILE\.sword, but we could probably change to Sword Under windows, there shouldn't be pathnames starting with ".". That is a unix thing. This needs to be changed in the engine, as well. > > > and maybe (under Vista, anyway - but not sure what the function of > $PUBLIC is meant to be) > > 5) $PUBLIC\Sword > > > > The last two are very likely to be read only under Vista at least; I > don't think there is any central directory where all users can write to. > > I don't know about $PUBLIC but under XP and Vista, ALLUSERSPROFILE is > writable by both normal user and administrator on my systems (although > I was previously under the impression that it wasn't writable on > Vista). Digging deeper into the permissions, users can do almost anything to public, but not delete from ALLUSERSPROFILE. I'm not sure which of those is best. God Bless, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. Giôên 3:14 (ESV)
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