saving settings

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Grant Edwards wrote:


> Documents and settings aren't quite the same thing, but it's a
> valid point.
> 
>> Especially not the ones you wrote on that other machine.
>>
>> Seriously: Who is going to copy a executable around?
> 
> I do.  I copy putty.exe around all of the time.

I download it every time, and if I didn't, I'd be pretty annoyed if I'd copy
it to a friends machine containing ALL MY KEYS embedded into it.

>> Do you know of any other program that behaves like that?
> 
> Back in the day, that used to be fairly common under
> DOS/Windows.  Not that it's still not a really bad idea.

Back in the day self-modifying code was the craze too. And _some_ people
even do it in python :) 

Diez