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From: icking@gmdzi.gmd.de (Werner Icking)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Desktop bitmaps??
Message-ID: <3440@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 5 Oct 90 09:41:20 GMT
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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.

And the greatest pity ist, that it does not ask for permission to replace a
file with the same name. So data may be lost!

The HELP-function tells only that the bitmaps have to be in the windows
directory - and nothing about copying or replacing.
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