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- From: gumby@gabriel.cs.mcgill.ca (Phil PRANNO)
- Subject: Re: Apps putting their crap in system directories. : (
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.204200.22127@cs.mcgill.ca>
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- Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:42:00 GMT
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- Todd Henderson writes
- >
- > Is there any reason why companies' setup installs to put files in
- > system directories? It seems like to me it would be much easier for the
- > user if they created a sub-directory, at the very least, off of the system
- > directory they are shooting for.
- >
- > Case in point is Draw for OS/2 by Micrografx, they put a bunch of stuff
- > in the os2/dll directory. Now if I want to delete it, I have to know which
- > is which. I have created a os2/dll/user_dll directory where I put the
- > stuff that I know about or have control over. At least here I only have to
- > worry about other apps' files.
- >
-
- MS Word 2.0 for windoze is MUCH worse. It installs entire programs
- and update dlls in the windoze directory. When the day comes to re-format
- your OS/2 partition you have to re-install Word... If you didn't
- remember to xcopy your windoze directory to another partition first...
-
- > Is this trend left over from DOS when the PATH had a limited character
- > length or do most UNIX's do this also???
- >
- > Todd
- > tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
-
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