At 12:21 PM -0800 11/7/00, Scott Rossi wrote:
>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.
Hi Scott
I guess the different directories may be because of upgrading from
different previous versions, e.g. from NT to 2000 or Win 98 to 2000.
To get the system directory, try the $SystemRoot global environmental
variable. To test, in the message box: "put $SystemRoot"
Cheers
Dave Cragg
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