> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Rolf Campbell
> > Software packages belong in C:\Program\* and nowhere else > (Note that this > > is equal to "C:\Program Files\*" on ENGLISH Win98. > > Ahhh... yeah. So, what is the rest of the disk for? Why not just put > everything in a directory called "C:\Everything"? Ahh... Microsoft infestation detected. ;-) I should have written "C:\Program\<package-name>\" above... Happy now? I _hate_ having C:\foo\ c:\bar\ c:\this\ c:\that\ directories. They DO belong in C:\Program\ (or whatever) _AND NOT IN THE ROOT_ >:-I Any files belonging to a software package should be kept in a storage that identifies them as beeing part of that package. IMO a well structured operating system allows this (e.g. AmigaOS, Unix/Linux) Therefore cygwin is in C:\Program\cygwin\ here. As it has kept all its files within that directory I consider it to be "well behaving". (i.e. I talk good about it among friends ;-) Example: Install Corel Draw (Version 8 is the last one I tried), tell it to install in C:\Program\CorelDraw\ - what does it do? It STILL creates a C:\corel\ directory; to hold some "essential" files. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
