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From: Bryan Murphy <bryan DOT murphy AT hcst DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Shared libraries
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 09:40:06 -0400
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>From: 	ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA[SMTP:ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA]
>Sent: 	Friday, May 30, 1997 1:04 AM
>To: 	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
>Subject: 	Re: Shared libraries
>
>A smart install could create a standard directory in its absence. It can
>either prompt for a hard drive letter or assume it can put the djl's on C.
>(Better to ask for a drive letter; D might have the disk space and C might
>not.)
>
>If only it were that easy.  No, that wouldn't work either, because then
>you have people like me.  I have 3 Drives, setup as follows:
>
>C:\File Archive
>C:\bin
>C:\Program Files
>C:\Utils
>C:\Windows
>
>D:\Games
>D:\Games Archive
>
>E:\etc
>E:\src
>E:\dev
>
>I keep everything within this directory structure, and of course sub-
>directories are just as anal.  In fact, I'm so anal about it I even keep
>AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS and any other file that MUST be in
>the root directory hidden.  
>
>See, somebody like me is probalby going to move your file some
>place else.  I can't stand programs that insist on having files off the
>root directory.
>
>Bryan Murphy (aka Dalroth)
>Web Developer
>HCST, Inc. : http://www.hcst.com/
>Home Page: http://www.hcst.com/~bryan/
>
>
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