Re: File names for client interfaces

Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >Here are the open items I found in the current SSL discussion:
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------------
> >------------
> >
> >remove the leading dot from file names
> >find local directory on NT-based systems using SHGetFolderPath()
> >  use "Application Data" or just the user home directory
> >  what to use on Win 9x?  no function and no %USERPROFILE%
> 
> This needs to be SHGetSpecialFolderPath(). Note the "special". To work
> on older versions of Windows as well.
> 
> This API above is fully supported on 98 and ME, as well as 2000, XP and
> 2003. Supported on 9x and NT4 if you have IE 4.0 or later installed
> (which is also needed for almost anything else on these platforms
> today). 

OK, great.

> >  Win98 has:	
> >	TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
> >	TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
> >	PROMPT=$p$g
> >	winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
> >	COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
> 
> Is your 98 installed with multiple user profiles? IIRC (and it was long
> ago, so I can be wrong) yuo can install it either for multiple users
> with logins (ok, ok, ctrl-esc gets you past the login, but hey, it gives
> you your own desktop at least) *or* singleuser system.

It is installed as single user and I supressed the login on startup.

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