Re: Run BASIC v1.0 released!

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:17:34 -0800 (PST), carlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>You only have to install it in a folder in root directory

Is a root directory of a mapped (or SUBSTed) drive okay, or must it be
the root of a physical drive?

I install programs in a separate folder (which has a SUBSTed drive
letter) because:
1.  It is easier to access at a DOS prompt because there are no spaces
in the path name.
2.  To segregate things that I install from the preinstalled junk (in
the "Program Files" folder) which I might remove someday.  Over time,
Windows tends to ac***ulate a larger haystack around the needles which
I might want to find.  Keeping the preinstalled junk in its own
haystack might make it easier to identify and deal with later.


> I know you take issue with this approach but I take issue with
>Microsoft's approach.

Ditto.  Several of their approaches.

Good reading:
http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/dll_article.html
	No application should assume that it can copy DLLs 
	into the system directory


Adam

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