Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Re: change location of preferences dir '.eth ereal' on W2K

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From: "HOOD, Andy" <ahood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:52:25 +1000
And the user is at liberty to move USERPROFILE wherever they want.

If you upgraded NT4 to NT5^H^H^HWin2K it would still point to
%systemroot%\Profiles\etc.

Regards,
Andrew Hood
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't
even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -- Leslie Lamport,
as quoted in CACM, June 1992


-----Original Message-----
From:	Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Friday, 31 August 2001 04:10
To:	fredd
Cc:	ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: change location of preferences dir
'.ethereal' on W2K (Guy Harris)

> wouldn't be easier to propose the user as a option where he wants to put
> his(her) preference files ?

Allow users to specify where they want prefernce files, yes.

*Require* users to specify where they want preference files, no.  I'd
like to find a default that gives the right answer most of the time, and
allow the users for whom it isn't the right answer to override it.

> furthermore on win2k : the application user directory is much like :
> "c:\Documents and Settings\user\..."

Yes, I knew that - and, on my office machine running NT
5.0^H^H^H^H^H^HW2K, "USERPROFILE" is set to "C:\Documents and Setting\guy",
so that *is* the user's profile directory, it just doesn't happen to
have the word "profile" in the path name.

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