Yo.

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:49:54PM -0700, Digital Wokan wrote:
> Actually, finding out where Windows is installed is easy.  Win95/98
> always puts WinDir=(windows drive and path) in MSDOS.SYS.  So you just
> have to parse MSDOS.SYS to see where they installed Windows.  And I'm
> not as sure about this, but I believe MSDOS.SYS is always written to the
> first FAT/FAT32 partition.

Ehh. Is that so? Haven't used Windows in ages so we forget about these things
(though people still ask me quesons like My library is screwed, what can I do ..
 ;))

If that is so, it would make MSDOS.SYS easy grepping.


How about I find some way to package one of these first, before I do something
else like trying to install the codecs automagically?(again, not htat I really
oike the codecs coz they are non-OS binary only stuff ..)

also, to Alex: 

Yes I was jus thinking about %post ... 

> So I don't know how DrakFont goes about getting it's information, but I
> do not that it doesn't do it at install.  It's definitely been manually
> run by me, as I would imagine a Codec finding program would be.
>


Dams??

How do you do it, would it be a good idea for DrakFont?

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