The docs say that you can adjust this via the registry: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html?q=find-system-path#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._find-system-path%29%29
but I don't know how that would work. Maybe it's location would already be good enough if the student's home directories are on those drives, tho. Robby On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Stephen Bloch <bl...@adelphi.edu> wrote: > How does DrRacket decide where to put/find user preference files (e.g. > language selection, teachpacks, fonts, auto-save, recently opened files, > etc.)? For example, is there a way to persuade DrRacket on a Windows machine > to look in a particular place on a particular lettered drive? > > Our computing center has locked down the lab computers so they're all > restored to a pristine state on reboot. But they have a "persistent drive" > which doesn't get wiped, and I'm negotiating with the computing center to get > each student a drive that maps to that student's individual > password-protected storage. Can we get DrRacket to look for a preference > file in one of those places? > > I have no idea how those preference files are organized -- I assume there's > some kind of keyword/value property list -- but one possible implementation > is an "include" property that refers to another file location, and acts as > though the contents of that file had been inserted here. > > > Stephen Bloch > sbl...@adelphi.edu > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
