RE: [MiNT] Re: location of GEM app configs an

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 4:22 PM
> To: Jo Even Skarstein
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Re: location of GEM app configs an
> 
> 
> > > However, several MiNT and MagiC specific applications rely upon
> > > $HOME but this is a bad idea, IMHO, because users need to have
> > > 2 copies of every config file.
> > 
> > ?? Why is this a bad idea? And why must users have two copies of their
> > configuration-files?
> 
> Because, when switching between SingleTOS and MiNT/MultiTOS, the
> application will look for its configs in a different place, when
> $HOME is found.  Thus, we need 2 config copies.

Why would they do that? $HOME can be used as it is even under SingleTOS.