On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 10:42 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: >>> No, no. Each OS installed on a windows system has profiles >>> installed in the %SystemRoot% directory. Typically, there is >>> only one profile on a single user machine.
>> Then that's one of the differences which I've been trying to >> get across. There is no one root directory accessible to >> different systems running MacOS. Each system contains it's own >> configuration(s). > Ditto for Windows. Well then I didn't understand what P. Daley meant. Exactly how does the bootstrap code determine which M$ system will run? >> Another way of looking at it is that the OS should be >> configurable as to whether or not the user should "include all >> fonts" in PostScript and EPS files generated by her >> applications even if she doesn't have a PostScript printer. >> That's a huge problem with OSes from Redmond WA. It's not a >> problem with MacOS. > I knew that the discussion would descend into platform bashing. But you all are claiming that it's really weird that Macintoshes don't have have the same mechanism to determine "Applications" and "Documents" folders. Given the choice of built-in PostScript and a Control Panel to select the location of those folders, I know which I'd rather have. Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
