Monday, November 15, 1999
Hello Steve,
Sunday, Sunday, November 14, 1999, you wrote:
Steve> Sunday, November 14, 1999, 6:12:09 AM, Ali wrote:
>> So, if I wish to move my TB! installation which now resides on F:\The
>> Bat!, I can copy the directory and it's contents to drive F: on my
>> other machine, create a shortcut to thebat.exe and go?
Steve> You're assuming that both machines have the same drives. At home TB!
Steve> resides in d:\home\morpheus\bat\. At work it resides on
Steve> c:\home\morpheus\bat\.
Steve> What is kept in the registry is just window and editor preferences.
Steve> Personally I feel nothing should be stored in the registry. After fighting
Steve> with it after using Unix's rc files I have *NO* clue why they made that utter
Steve> crap thing.
>>> In fact, the program doesn't need to be copied over. If TB! could
>>> only use relative paths then it wouldn't mess up on a lot of things
>>> it currently breaks on. :/
>> Exactly. But it doesn't use relative paths and this creates some
>> constraints that one has to work within to prevent problems with the
>> migration.
Steve> Moving the registry doesn't solve those problems. Personally, moving the
Steve> registry isn't worth the trouble, IMHO.
The only real practical reason to move the registry is if you donot
know what the registration key is....
To recreate 5 mailboxes or whatever which after recreation picks up
all the old settings anyway or at least not make me feel I missed
anything, only takes a few minutes.
As far as I can see most PC's work a lot better by using programs NOT
messing around in the registry and if anything goes wrong, no pain
either to get a program to run with a reinstalled windows.
Its one of the things which for me is a major factor if I want to use
a program or not.
Best regards,
tracer
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