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- From: bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button)
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- Subject: Re: Apps putting their crap in system directories. :(
- Message-ID: <BAB.92Nov11070823@se39.wg2.waii.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 12:08:23 GMT
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- In-reply-to: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 10 Nov 92 19:42:35 GMT
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- ->"Todd" == Todd Henderson <tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
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- Todd> Is there any reason why companies' setup installs to put files
- Todd> in system directories? It seems like to me it would be much
- Todd> easier for the user if they created a sub-directory, at the very
- Todd> least, off of the system directory they are shooting for.
-
- Part of the problem may be that you might need to reboot after
- installing and before using something that installed a DLL or an EXE
- in a non-standard place. To find those pieces, you'd have to change
- your LIBPATH and PATH variables, and I don't know if LIBPATH can be
- changed interactively.
-
- Todd> Is this trend left over from DOS when the PATH had a limited
- Todd> character length or do most UNIX's do this also???
-
- Unix stuff does not do this. Each app installs its stuff into its own
- directory hierarchy, and you add the appropriate parts to your PATH
- and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables interactively.
-
- As much as I like OS/2, its still a lot more like DOS than Unix in
- terms of usability (IMHO, Unix > OS/2 >>>>> DOS).
-
- bab
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