>> I assume that since I have an .exe running in a CD-rom, it must write to
>> the user's harddrive?
>
> That's easier than writing to the CD-ROM :-P
>
>> Is there an easy way to write to the system folder
>> in a Windows 95/98/2000/NT platfrom?
>
> Buddy API has calls to find the system folder, and write to an ini file
> there. I'm not an NT user, but you might check with an NT guru to see if
> there are privileges issues in the system folder.
>
> Buddy is the Swiss Army Knife of Xtras--you can't afford to be without it.
> It's not expensive, either--in fact, it's free if you only use a couple
> functions.
BuddyAPI is great and definitely worth buying, but if you dont want to use
it and have time to kill (and hair to lose), you can do the same thing with
the free FileIO Xtra (included with Director)
Use fileIO to get the OS directory (using "getOSDirectory" method), and its
read/write text methods to create and update a text file on the hard
drive... but you will save yourself a lot of headache getting BuddyApi.
Luke
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