[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Per user dirs on Non-Unix platforms (was Re: [Python-Dev] Where to install non-code files)

[John W Baxter]

At 23:56 +0200 5/29/2000, Jack Jansen wrote:
>BTW: I doubt that MacOS9 actually copies the preferences folder
>around, as someone suggested, I would guess that it simply adjusts the
>value returned by FindFolder. Programs that don't use FindFolder but
>hardcoded pathnames get stomped on rather seriously in non-US MacOS
>versions since about 1992, so I don't think there's many of them left.

I believe Jack is correct about the not-copying of the special folders.
Some programs work under Mac OS 9.x but fail under Mac OS 9.x with multi
user on, largely because they "know" where the special folders are instead
of asking.  (MPW except the very new development version is one such.)

   --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA