Steven wrote:
>What's illogical about this? The underware goes in
>the underware drawer, the tools go in the tool chest,
>and the vegetables go in the vegie bin.
Because I think things should be in their own seperate directories - not
related to what kind of file they are but what they do/are for. Some linux
programs (ex. majordomo - in /home/majordomo/) fit this much better. Having
things as they are in Linux is to me like putting all the food in the
"vegie bin" - because they are all eatable they should go there regardless
if it's a good place to store it or not.
>Oh yes you can. Format c: will cut the branch quite
>nicely (you can even pipe an 'echo y' to avoid the
>prompt). The point is: with Linux you can only cut
>the branch if you are the root user.
Well I talked about a branch (directory) not a tree (drive) ;-)
I can see the point in having strict security in a multi-user environment.
But on your own home-computer that only you use?
>I agree with Michael. It's stupid, Stupid, STUPID !!!
>C:\DOS is the most important directory on the whole
>system. It is extremely dangerous to tell programs
>to use it for writing/deleting temporary files.
But they (programs) should only remove files that belong to them. For
instance if c:\temp is completly cleared you can have trouble in a
multi-tasking environment (Windows for instance) if some other program have
written files to the temp directory and is going to fetch them later. Or to
make it easier for you to understand - should /tmp/ be cleared by every
program that has written one file there and then wants to remove it?
>Precisely. That is why you shouldn't have TEMP
>pointing at C:\DOS. You never know when you will
>run into a program that wipes the TEMP directory.
>There are probably dozens of them out there.
Yes, but when the author of a program finds this out he/she should fix it
ASAP IMHO to avoid creating the problem. I have not run into a program that
completly wipes out %temp% except Arachne... An easy sollution would be to
make a directory in %temp% and then remove it.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
