Steve, Steve Wendt wrote: > Michael Kaply wrote: > >> And as far as apps that don't need change to CONFIG.SYS, that's >> Windows. Harder to do on OS/2 > > > Or, from a wider perspective, harder to do on Windows (it's harder to > store/restore things from the registry than from a text file).
Technically, an OS/2 application can also store data in the OS/2 INI files, and many do. Netscape 4.x at least stored its installation location because it used the IBM installer. I haven't looked if Mozilla stored anything but I wouldn't be surprised if it did. It would be nice if it did, so that plug-ins installers could find it and automatically install in the right place. This could also be used by the application itself - it could have a "stub" program that would dynamically set the BEGINLIBPATH/PATH or any other variable based on the location provided in the INI key, before starting the real program. This would eliminate the need for any change to CONFIG.SYS. It would also break the program if you moved it manually.
