On Oct 22, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> This is why static configuration information for my programs are kept 
> in
> "environment files" in the ENV directory within the installation 
> directory.

This has its advantages, but one of the "problems" with windows (that 
tends
to be less prevalent on unix) is the use of system-wide directories for
configuration info that SHOULD be created on a per-user basis.  Most of
the microcontroller tools we're talking about should count as 
"individual
use" programs for the most part, and really ought to have config info
stored in the per-user area (perhaps in addition to system-wide 
configs.)

It's too bad that the per-user areas for config info tends to be so
platform specific :-(  dot-files in the home directory for unix, files
in ~/Library/Application Support for MacOS, somewhere apparently 
indirectly
located via My Documents on modern windows, and ... not available on 
older
windows.

BillW
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