Re: File names for client interfaces

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: File names for client interfaces
Date: 2005-01-06 16:19:14
Message-ID: 200501061619.j06GJEo08438@candle.pha.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >Here are the open items I found in the current SSL discussion:
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------------
> >------------
> >
> >remove the leading dot from file names
> >find local directory on NT-based systems using SHGetFolderPath()
> > use "Application Data" or just the user home directory
> > what to use on Win 9x? no function and no %USERPROFILE%
>
> This needs to be SHGetSpecialFolderPath(). Note the "special". To work
> on older versions of Windows as well.
>
> This API above is fully supported on 98 and ME, as well as 2000, XP and
> 2003. Supported on 9x and NT4 if you have IE 4.0 or later installed
> (which is also needed for almost anything else on these platforms
> today).

OK, great.

> > Win98 has:
> > TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
> > TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
> > PROMPT=$p$g
> > winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
> > COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
>
> Is your 98 installed with multiple user profiles? IIRC (and it was long
> ago, so I can be wrong) yuo can install it either for multiple users
> with logins (ok, ok, ctrl-esc gets you past the login, but hey, it gives
> you your own desktop at least) *or* singleuser system.

It is installed as single user and I supressed the login on startup.

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