.pdrc for Windows WAS: Re: [PD] pd 0.37.1 Windows installer release candidate

[zmoelnig at iem.at]

Zitiere Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>:

> 
> I don't think that that's necessary in order to get .pdrc files working
> 
> on Windows. Windows can have a home dir set like UNIX, so it could just
> 
> as easily go there.  But it would probably make sense to have a .pdrc 
> file in the App dir, but perhaps it should then have a different name,
> 
> like pd.rc or pd.conf.
> 

i fully agree with having another pdrc-file that can be used system-wide.
e.g: our setting is a s follows: ew have tons of computers (with different
hardware) and tons of students (with "different software").
home-directories are shared between all the computers.
so it would ease maintainance if there was some system-specific pdrc-file (on
unix systems i would vote for /etc/pdrc or /etc/pd/pdrc) and user-specific files
in there home (btw: i always thought that there is some "home"-directory on
windows; at least there is some "Applications and Settings" directory (on
>=w2k); is this not available t opd somehow due to the "DOS"-mode of pd ?)

the users-preferences should overwrite the system defaults. (but why ? it just
makes more sense to me), but they should really be merged.

and being at this, we would like a command flag "-rcfile <file>" to solely use
another rcfile.


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