Re: Writing journal and output file to current directory

[Michel Boaventura]

Programs made to windows usually are executed from it install folder
and they write all files in a user temp dir. To be able to run psppire
from other folder, we will need to put all it's dlls on a shared
folder, like c:\windows\system32, but it isn't a nice thing to do.
Another problem is that on a server or a network install, a lot of
users runs psppire at the same time, and those files will be overwrite
every time.

Let's stop looking at this for now, because there other problems to
fix first, but I hope that you understand the problem better now.

2008/10/15 John Darrington <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 01:33:13PM -0300, Michel Boaventura wrote:
>
>     Another issue is that psppire write files in the current directory.
>     This isn't good on windows, because usually a program stay on
>     c:\program files, witch isn't writable by default. So for windows we
>     need to tell psppire to write on a temporary folder.
>
>
> This has been discussed before, but I still don't understand the
> problem.
>
> Firstly, the only files that psppire writes to the current directory
> are the output file "psppire.txt" and the journal "pspp.jnl".  If it
> writes any others, that's a bug; please report it.  Those two files
> are not `temporary' in any sense.  They are the intended output of the
> program.
>
> Secondly, why are you changing directory to C:\Program Files ??
> Just because psppire is installed there, surely doesn't mean that you
> have to change to that directory in order to run it?  One would also
> have the same problem on GNU/Linux --- psppire would normally be
> installed in /bin, and if I were to type "cd /bin ; ./psppire" then
> I too would get errors.  But that's not how it works.  Run psppire
> from the home directory and everything should be fine.
>
> I don't have much experience with windows, so perhaps I'm missing
> something.  Can you try to elaborate this problem.
>
> J'
>
>
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