- From: Markus Maier <mle@neze.de>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 02:11:19 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-amaya-dev@w3.org
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Hello, This is a feature request. Perhaps somebody make the following work: [1] Launch Amaya from an CD-ROM or read-only mounted Network device; the problems with Amaya 8.1a are related to my point [2] and the following observation: If I start Amaya on Windows (98) from a writeable Samba Share the location bar shows E:\2N\2R1125\SYS\0\2N\2R1141\AMAYA\WINDOWS_I386.AMAYA_2003_04_23.NEZE.DE\INST\amaya\AmayaPage.html from another read-only Samba share I get: ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ...... [2] Amaya uses different locations for its user directory, and it is configurable in nearly all environments: Unix: change HOME-Env-varaible WinNT/2000/XP: change HOMEDRIVE- and HOMEPATH-env-variables but on windows 98 it is hardcoded (as far as I understand the sources), now my suggestion: Check (in all environments) for an env-varaible AMAYA_USER_HOME, and if it is set use it, if it is not set keep the default behaviours as it is implemented at the moment. This makes it possible to launch amaya with a small script from a read-only disk (in my case: a CD-ROM and read-only samba share ); the script has to define AMAYA_USER_HOME with a temporary directory. I think that are 3 lines of code in /thotlib/base/registry.c and 2 lines of additional documentation. Kind regards mle
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