Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: .ethereal location on Windows

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:06:42 -0800 (PST)
> I would like to propose adding %HOME% as a possible location for
> the .ethereal directory on Windows.  For me and my co-workers, 
> the directory %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% is write protected.  I've
> included a patch below if no one has any objections.  Please note
> that I am not setup to build ethereal so this patch has not been
> compiled or tested.  Also, my Mailer is wrapping the lines of the
> patch.  I apologize for this in advance.

I would like to propose completely removing %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH%
from the location for the ".ethereal" directory on Windows, putting it
in the "Application Data" directory under your profile directory - and,
while we're at it, renaming the ".ethereal" directory to "Ethereal".

Application configuration files are supposed to go in the subdirectories
of the "Application Data" directory under the user's profile directory.

The advantage of my proposal is that it's already in the CVS tree, and
has been there for a while, and will thus show up in the next release. :-)