Re: suggestions to developer...

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:

>Any program which uses its own resource fork to save preferences annoys me
>because I have to reformat my hard drive fairly often (apparently I have a
>system glitch that occasionally blasts things and wipes out my hard
>drive).  When I do so, I lose my configuration... normally, I back up all
>my config. files and such before reformatting.

>Keeping all of the configuration files in *:System is standard procedure;
>however, I'm considering coding my programs to use *:System:Preferences if
>it exists (I wouldn't create it myself).

That's not a good idea. Just sotre the config files in @/ . If someone wants
to set @/ to */System/Preferences, then that's what they want. I think it
would be easy to write a PIF that plays with the @/ prefix. (There's a GS/OS
call to change the prefix...)

>- Eric S.
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