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Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows


From: Joern Thyssen
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:01:25 +0000
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:49:20PM +0200, Holger wrote
> At 11:54 13.10.2003, Jon Kinsey wrote:
> >At 22:31 11/10/2003, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> >>
> >>A number of users have complained about gnubg for windows writing the
> >>settings file (and player statistics, boards, etc.) to the install
> >>directory.
> >>
> >>Any ideas on how to change this? Under unix the environment variable
> >>$HOME points to the user's home directory. Is there a similar
> >>environment variable under windows that point to C:\Document and
> >>Settings\username\?
> >
> >On windows 2000 and windows XP, USERPROFILE points to this directory, not 
> >sure if it's the same on 95/98.
> 
> No it doesn't exist at least on Win95. Imho it will certainly also depend 
> on whether Windows is configured for multi-user access or just one standard 
> user for everybody. The appropriate directories will not even exist.

Fair enough. On win95/98 there shouldn't be any problems with write
access to %USERPROFILE%.

I suggest the following:

gnubg read and writes .gnubgautorc, .gnubg/* to/from 

(a) HOME on posix systems
(b) USERPROFILE on later windows versions
    (BTW, should it be %USERPROFILE%/gnubg instead?)
(c) current directory otherwise

The interesting part is "migration" of existing user's profiles. I
simply suggest that gnubg copies .gnubgautorc from the data directory to
%USERPROFILE% if non-existing in %USERPROFILE%.

Jørn

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