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Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows
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Joern Thyssen |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:04:53 +0000 |
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:30:32PM +0200, Holger wrote
> >
> >Fair enough. On win95/98 there shouldn't be any problems with write
> >access to %USERPROFILE%.
>
> If it exists, no. If the directory doesn't exist, you'll get an error on
> open().
Good point :-) gnubg should also check for existence, and create the
directory if possible.
> >I suggest the following:
> >
> >gnubg read and writes .gnubgautorc, .gnubg/* to/from
> >
> >(a) HOME on posix systems
> >(b) USERPROFILE on later windows versions
> > (BTW, should it be %USERPROFILE%/gnubg instead?)
>
> If you getenv() the variable then without the percent signs. If any command
> does env. variable expanding then it has to be used in the path with
> percent signs.
>
> >(c) current directory otherwise
>
> What about the datadirectory?
szDataDirectory is currently initialised to "." for windows, so item (c)
above is the current default.
>
> >The interesting part is "migration" of existing user's profiles. I
> >simply suggest that gnubg copies .gnubgautorc from the data directory to
> >%USERPROFILE% if non-existing in %USERPROFILE%.
>
> But only if this directory already exists (except for the "\gnubg" part). I
> wouldn't like gnubg to create folders outside of its install directory on
> my system.
What do you propose then? I think it's a severe requirement that the
user must be logged on as super user!
Jørn
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- [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Joern Thyssen, 2003/10/11
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Jon Kinsey, 2003/10/13
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Holger, 2003/10/13
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Joern Thyssen, 2003/10/13
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Holger, 2003/10/13
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows,
Joern Thyssen <=
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Holger, 2003/10/13
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Holger, 2003/10/15
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Joern Thyssen, 2003/10/16
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Holger, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Jon Kinsey, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Holger, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Jon Kinsey, 2003/10/13
- Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows, Jon Kinsey, 2003/10/13