Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Request for Change

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From: "Mark H. Wood" <mwood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 08:51:29 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Jason House wrote:
> \NTROOT\System32\drivers\etc\hosts contains similar functionality to
> /etc/hosts
> on my win2k computer \NTROOT = C:\WINNT.  I don't know about non-NT systems,
> but I would guess a similar path...

The environment variable %WINDIR% points to the top of the Windows tree.
The default placement of Windows is C:\WINNT in NT 4 and Win2000.  It is
C:\WINDOWS in Windows 3.1, Win95 (and probably 98 and ME), and WinXP.  I
don't recall what it is in NT 3.1 or 3.5.

It's best to expand %WINDIR%, because the install kit will allow you to
put Windows elsewhere if you really want to.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@xxxxxxxxx
MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user".