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From: boukanov AT sentef2 DOT fi DOT uib DOT no (Igor Boukanov)
Subject: Re: mounts, ls, and filename completion
18 Aug 1998 19:45:23 -0700 :
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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, CyberJack wrote:

> Why is it using the registry to store anything? Shouldn't we gear this
> toward a normal standard filesystem format.

Exactly! Why not to have a single entry in the registry that points to the
configuration file/directory with a possibility to overwrite it via
Aan environment variable? Or even just a single environment variable
because in any case Windows would store it in registry?

Regards, Igor Boukanov. 
igor DOT boukanov AT fi DOT uib DOT no  
http://www.fi.uib.no/~boukanov/

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