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echo: binkd
to: TOMMI KOIVULA
from: MICHAEL DUKELSKY
date: 2016-01-27 19:01:00
subject: Feature request

Hello Tommi,

Wednesday January 27 2016, Tommi Koivula wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 BF>>>    Absolutely! Current as in the directory where your EXE-file
 BF>>> is located.

 MD>> Sorry, but I cannot agree. It is not good to have configuration
 MD>> files and executables in one directory. Microsoft used that bad
 MD>> practise in Windows 9x, but later they abandoned it.

 TK> In OS/2 I still prefer the directory where the executable is located.
 TK> Also the husky way would be ok, use environment variable for pointing
 TK> the config file.

Using an environment variable would be much better than any directory hardwired
in the executable.

 TK> I have no problem with the current way; no default.

Neither do I.

Michael

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