Thanks Nahum. Seems my real problem was some faulty testing on the win95 PC.
On re-testing I found my files were going into windows\system directory (not
windows\system32 as I originally thought). Cheers.
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Subject: RE: [DUG]: System Directory
Sticking those in the windows system directory makes sense.
Nahum.
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> Ok that makes sense in your case. But I am also distributing
> that Borland
> ones as well which adds up to quite a few. (The benefits to
> this can seen in
> the final size of your exec's and dll's)
> I'd like to put these Borland bpl's in a common place. Any
> one else in my
> situation.
>
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> Behalf Of Nahum Wild
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:47 AM
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> Subject: RE: [DUG]: System Directory
>
>
> I plan on putting them in the same place as my application.
> That way they
> are less likely to be overwritten by someone elses app (in the bizzar
> situation that another delphi developer uses the same files names as
> myself). Also it keeps all the files associated with my app
> in the one
> place rather than scattered about the HD in many places
> (which is always a
> good thing). I'm using the packages as plugins so it makes
> much more sense
> to do it this way so the user can get access to their
> location easily to do
> appropriate 'stuff'.
>
>
> Nahum.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 09:46 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: [DUG]: System Directory
> >
> >
> > Hi, I have created a install program that was putting my
> > packages into the
> > windows system directory which I obtained by the api call
> > GetSystemDirectory. Typically this was c:\windows\system32 .
> > I just assumed
> > that this path was on the system path list. But I found on my
> > win95 machine
> > it wasn't, but was on the win2000 system path. I guess I
> > could put them in
> > the application directory but I'd be interested to hear where
> > others have
> > been placing their packages (bpl). Cheers.
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