Jason Zapman II wrote: > On Jun 25, 11:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I would think you could pop-up some dialog when the program is first >> run to ask where they want the file to be. On the first run though, >> you can just have the config file located in the current working >> directory with the script file itself. Then just move it or save a new >> copy to the new location and delete the original. > > The 'pop-up' is easy. The problem is how does the program know where > it's state file is the SECOND time it is run? I can't stash it in the > state file, since the program won't know where it is if it's not in > the CWD... (unless I'm missing something obvious). > > The traditional choices are the registry for Windows, and the /etc subtree for the various, almost uncountable, flavors of Unix and nixalikes. You're right, it's much more difficult per-system than per-user, since there are so many conventions.
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