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echo: binkd
to: MARK LEWIS
from: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
date: 2016-01-28 09:07:00
subject: Re: Feature request

Hi mark,

On 27 Jan 16 14:36, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Feature request":

 ml> wouldn't it be better to use %APPDATA%/FTN/binkd? %APPDATA% because...
 ml> well, it is winwhatever...

That's equivalent to using CSIDL_APPDATA with SHGetFolderPath().

But when you are running binkd as a daemon I don't think you want to use a
users private appdata directory for this, but maybe you should?

CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA is equivalent to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%. But from Windows Vista
and higher you are supposed to use %ProgramData%. So using the environment
variable is less standardized. But that's true for the CSIDL_ constants too,
they are replaced by FOLDERID_ constants from Vista and onwards...

 ml> FTN because fidonet is not the only FTN and there are many folks in
 ml> other FTNs that are not in fidonet and never will be... FTN covers all
 ml> FTNs ;)

Sure, but what is the F in FTN stand for? ;)

Wilfred.

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