Mike Carter said,
> Ah yes that's it!! :) Come to think of it that's quite good, all
> users on the system can have their own program settings... maybe it
> should be optional though from settings within the program to use the
> HOME: assign. It would be good if all NetConnect software used HOME:
> for settings? Although a global setting could bne made and then
> individual user settings can be overlayed on top of the default
> globals. That way I could give my mum :) her own account that has
> Voyager set to use HUGE font as she is getting blind!! hehe.
AmiFTP does something like this. It first looks in HOME: for it's
config and then in PROGDIR: so it's easy to have individual settings
with global settings as a fallback.
It's a Unixy way of doing things, which probably makes it a good way.
Neil
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