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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > What I was pointing out was that the PROGRA~1 directory usually
> > pre-exists on every windows machine, because the Microsloth
> > installation makes it out of the 'program files' directory.
> 
> Not in non-English versions of the thing.  In German editions of
> Windows, c:\PROGRA~1 _is_ C:\Programme.  If there's a "C:\Program
> Files" on top of that, it'll usually be c:\PROGRA~2.
> 
> At least unless something truly silly happened, that is.  Like a
> broken attempt to backup/restore all of drive C: with a method that
> fails to conserver the short aliases of the long filenames.

I see.  I avoid the whole issue by having a c:\prgs directory, and
installing all non-Microsloth code under that.  MS tends to wire
in the PROGRA~1 directory.

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