Re: About defaults tool on Windows

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 6 Mar 2007, at 11:13, David Ayers wrote:

> Xavier Glattard schrieb:
> > Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard <at> tiptree.demon.co.uk> writes:
> [snip]
> > > If so, should NSUserDefaults strip the .exe?  I don't know.
> >
> >
> > I think it should. Two reasons :
> >
> > - compatibility :
> >   - a script (installation ?) that use defaults is not portable.
> >   - a UserDefaults file is system dependent and can not be
> >     shared between Windows and linux
> > - it's annoying ;-)
> >   i always forget the '.exe' and dont understand why it doesnt  
> > work ;-)
>
> Just another data point, interpret as you wish... but OPENSTEP on  
> NT and
> WO did strip the extensions to identify the domain name
>
> C:\Apple\Local\Projects>defaults domains
> Calculator ChangesTest EOFTestApp EOITest EOModeler EOTool FileMerge
> GSMarkupBrowser ....

That's good enough for me.  I'll change it.

Did they string the .exe from [NSProcessinfo-processName] as well?