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[Andrew "ruskie" Levstik <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:36:24 -0700
Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com> wrote:

> I'm creating a spell for a program that prints a map of Middle Earth and 
> then 
> allows you to see specific areas by name.  The spell is pretty much done, 
> except for that one minorly annoying "feature": the program requires its 
> data 
> files to be in the current working directory.  My problem is that I don't 
> know what to do with the data files.  Should I copy them to the ~ directory 
> or to /usr/share, or ...?  Where ever the data files are copied, the user 
> will have to change to that directory before running the program.  I'm 
> thinking that the home directory would be best, because of that, but the 
> files won't be tracked, and I think that would be messy to just drop 10 or 
> 12 
> files to the ~ directory.
> 
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Did you think about puting both data files and the executable into the 
/usr/share dir and then making a script to launch it from there....

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