Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!ncar!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@daisy.zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Misuse of the system folder... Message-ID: Date: 16 Apr 91 00:27:52 GMT References: <1991Apr10.093946.22779@allgfx.agi.oz> <622@cronos.metaphor.com> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: arends@yosemite.metaphor.com's message of 15 Apr 91 15: 55:26 GMT In article <622@cronos.metaphor.com> arends@yosemite.metaphor.com (Dale M. Arends) writes: >My preference (pun intended) is that applications check first at the local >level folder (etc.) and if the required preference file is not found, go >check in the Preferences folder in the System Folder. Lastly they could >look in the System Folder itself. Any applications I write do exactly that. >This approach, I believe, solves single-user and networked Preferences clutter >problems. The problem here is that, if a prefs file is installed on a shared drive, in a protected directory, you can't change your prefs. -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Should five percent appear too small, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | Be thankful I don't take it all. "Taxman" | \============================================================================/