On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:40:23 -0500, Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Um because PCs use paths to find files? Paths should be relative where possible. There are very few uses for absolute paths apart from general laziness on the part of software writers. > Do you think you can move OS/2 to another drive? No, and it can be a right pain. Why shouldn't you be able to? At most there should be 1 .INI entry that holds the root information. Everything else should be relative. But, it has been done the other way since the year dot, so everybody continues to do it. All very silly really. > Believe it or not, 99.999999999% of the population Quoting numbers like this is ridiculous. That works out to a fraction of a person I believe. And you have no evidence to prove it either. > don't ever change their drive letters, So why did IBM put the feature into LVM? It is extremely useful, or at least it could be, if programmers didn't use so many unnecessary absolute paths. > If you are smart enough to use LVM to change your drive letters, you are > smart enough to find all the occcurrences of that drive letter in > various files and change them to point to the new drive. This is probably true. That doesn't make it good design though.
