[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoffrey Lee) writes:
> 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 0ost ...
>
> > 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?
Drakfont looks in every partition that is mounted, and that has the type vfat
or ntfs. Then it search the MSDOS.SYS, grep it, and find thewindows directory.
And it goes deeper in the font directory. So the detection is fully automatic.
What do you want more?
For legal reasons, drakfont doesn't grab windows fonts during install. It
wouldn't be nice also for people that don't care about their windows fonts.
--
dam's
