For finding out the answer to these kinds of
puzzles I recommend Sysinternals Regmon (a
registry monitor). Just run regmon first,
apply a filter *rebol*, then start rebol.
You can sift through the output to see
which registry keys are attempted to be accessed.
Anyway, having done that, you can see a line such as:
40.87314030 rebol12131.exe:400 QueryValue HKCU\Software\Rebol\View\HOME
SUCCESS "/d/anton/dev/rebol/view/"
which tells you where rebol is installed.
I first found this out by manually searching the registry
for "rebol".
Check out the rebol command line usage for the:
--reinstall (+i) Force an install (View)
option.
Also, I think I just deleted the registry branch
HKCU\Software\Rebol or
HKCU\Software\Rebol\View
to make windows forget everything about rebol.
That's the same as uninstall. When rebol is run
again, it will think it needs to install itself.
As far as I know, "installing" basically just means
modifying the registry.
Anton.
> Some time ago I installed REBOL/View on my office Windows 98 computer.
> It got installed in C:\"Program Files"\REBOL\VIEW, probably because I
> took some default file path somewhere in the installation process--I
> can't remember any more. In any case, it works fine.
>
> Now I am trying to set up a procedure to make it as easy as possible
> for someone else to install REBOL/View on his computer, and I am testing
> this operation on my own computer. I create a directory called C:\REBOL
> and unpack REBOL/View into it, and then run it to create the PREFS.R and
> USER.R files.
>
> When I do that, the files USER.R and PREFS.R get created in...
> C:\Program Files\REBOL\VIEW.
>
> Where is REBOL looking to decide to put those files in the REBOL\VIEW
> directory in Program Files? How does it even know of the existence of
> such a place if I have unpacked it into C:\REBOL? Is the directory in
> Program Files hard-coded into the Windows version of REBOL? Have I
> missed some configuration file or environment variable somewhere?
>
> Thank you for any ideas, and Merry Christmas by the way.
>
>
> Steven White
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