Mail Archives: opendos/1997/05/07/11:55:27
Oh no! It's FSSTD again! :-)
At 10:39 1997/05/07 -0400, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
>Not sure about that... Would make heck of a slow database, and why would
>you like to relocate? If all packages are put in sensible places... I know
>DOS doesn't have a filesystem standard (in term of directory
>organization, there a place for each things) like Unix, but a minimal
>standard would be fine... I like the "/ProgramFiles/Company/Product"
>hiearchy of Win95 for external programs... Or maybe it is time to make a
>filesystem standard? It needs not to be as complex and far-fetched as
>Unix, but a good simple one would be nice...
I don't have a problem with a standard for newbies who don't know any
better (apologies to all newbies out there), but personally, I've devel-
oped my own DOS FSSTD of sorts, and I would *really* like to stick with
it. I don't want OpenDOS to fall into the trap of Unix, where changing
the directory structure is a non-trivial task (read: virtually impossible).
Intelligent applications that can place their files into whatever direct-
ories you want (specifiable through a config file, or an ENV variable, or
something) will go a long way, IMO. If the default locations of all
those directories follow some FSSTD, that's no problem with me.
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