Re: About defaults tool on Windows

[David Ayers]

Richard Frith-Macdonald schrieb:
> 
> On 6 Mar 2007, at 11:13, David Ayers wrote:
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>> Xavier Glattard schrieb:
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>>> Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard <at> tiptree.demon.co.uk> writes:
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>> [snip]
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>>>>
>>>> If so, should NSUserDefaults strip the .exe?  I don't know.
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>>>
>>>
>>> I think it should. Two reasons :
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>>> - 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 ;-)
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>>
>> Just another data point, interpret as you wish... but OPENSTEP on  NT and
>> WO did strip the extensions to identify the domain name
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>> C:\Apple\Local\Projects>defaults domains
>> Calculator ChangesTest EOFTestApp EOITest EOModeler EOTool FileMerge
>> GSMarkupBrowser ....
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> 
> That's good enough for me.  I'll change it.
> 
> Did they string the .exe from [NSProcessinfo-processName] as well?
> 

Interesting... indeed they did remove the string... MyTestTool.exe
reports MyTestTool.

Cheers,
David