Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!rpi!dorsai From: dorsai@pawl.rpi.edu (G. Donald Moncreaff) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Desktop bitmaps?? Message-ID: <`NR%|Q@rpi.edu> Date: 4 Oct 90 17:16:47 GMT References: <238@inews.intel.com> <10730003@hpspkla.spk.hp.com> Organization: Committee for Aesthetic Deletion Lines: 31 In article <10730003@hpspkla.spk.hp.com> town@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Brian R. Town) writes: >> Does anyone know if there is a way to tell Windows to look somewhere other >> than in the windows directory to find .bmp files? I'd like to keep all of >> the bitmaps together in a seperate (networked) directory, but it looks like >> the user will have to remember the full pathnames when selecting one. > >Along this same vein, I noticed the other day that when I told windows to use >a bitmap file from a different path - IT COPIED THE FILE INTO THE WINDOWS DIR! >So, you end up with two copies of the same bitmap. also, when you install fonts in copies them to the windows system directory. ( so that's where 3 MB of disk went! ) another peeve i have is re software that just Has To put something in your windows directory. along that line don't you just have software that can't come up with a naming convention... i mean sure we all like to have 15 different readme.txt files in one directory but dos doesn't :-( so why can't people ( usually shareware ) call there files by hte same names: saver.exe saved.dll saver.ini saver.txt... one last thing (apologigies to the screen peace folk, btw) it'd also be nice for there to be a convention on doc files as well. ie windows comes with 2: .txt and .wri, if you're really into it you can use a .hlp but please! enough with the .me's, .doc's .man's .1st's .etc's whew!, that's been accumulating for a while... o well, now back to your regularly scheduled " 'os/2 is better' 'is not!' program -- respectfully yours, Gregory D. Moncreaff 3006 Hunt II, RPI, Troy, NY 12180-3590 dorsai@pawl.rpi.edu --- Reasoning is partly insane, Image just an eyeless game... ---