Recently, Ernst Michael Reicher wrote:
> has anybody experience with MC and Windows 2000??
Yes. Seems to work great, except for the following issue I posted Oct 18.
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For those of you developing for multiple versions of Windows, here's an item
you might want to file away for further reference. It's news to me
anyway...
It appears to be possible that the main "Windows" system directory on a
Windows2000 system can have one of at least 2 different names.
I've been going back and forth with a client regarding the problematic
launching of an application from MC, and the reason turned out to be the
fact that our main "Windows" directories are named differently, even though
we are supposedly using the same version OS. The client's system has a
directory path of "c:\winnt", while mine is "c:\windows". These are both
Windows2000 installs, so the systemVersion function is of no use here. The
only reason I can guess why there is a difference in naming is that my
install was an "upgrade" of an existing Win98 system.
For any of you writing routines to deal with "standard" file locations, you
may want to take this into account when using MC to search for or place
files on Win2000 systems. The workaround I used was to first test for the
existence of a "windows" directory, and failing that, to look for "winnt".
If anyone has an explanation for the different directory names, please
share. Otherwise I'll assume it's because Microsoft wants to make my life
difficult.
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Regards,
Scott
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