Message-ID: <3DFE02B3.EA4E83EB@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: problem with malloc and free References: <3DFB46EA DOT 6D583E8E AT yahoo DOT com> <4098-Sun15Dec2002000605+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> <3DFBDB02 DOT E2DCD4E8 AT yahoo DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:00:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.171.209 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1040058029 12.90.171.209 (Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:00:29 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:00:29 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote: > > CBFalconer 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. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!