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[BOOK PATCH] Adding missing tag around Application Data
* doc/book/book/ch07.xml: Added missing tag around Application Data.
Re: [BOOK PATCH] Adding missing tag around Application Data
Posted by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>.
On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:11 AM, John Szakmeister wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 16, 2005, at 2:53 AM, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
>>
>>> * doc/book/book/ch07.xml: Added missing tag around Application Data.
>>> <book.diff>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Grzegorz...
>>
>> Is "Application Data" really a path in this paragraph? I think it's
>> being used more generically... it's talking about a general area on
>> the
>> system defined by the windows registry. Maybe a win32 expert can
>> speak up.
>
> Open explorer and type %APPDATA% in the address bar. It will take you
> straight to your Application Data folder stored in your profile. :-)
>
Yah, sure, I know that. But the question is whether that book
paragraph is talking about the actual folder named "Application Data",
or whether it's talking about the generic application data area. In
this particular paragraph, I'm wondering if the phrase just shouldn't
be de-capitalized, rather than marked as a literal filename.
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Re: [BOOK PATCH] Adding missing tag around Application Data
Posted by John Szakmeister <jo...@szakmeister.net>.
Brass Tilde wrote:
>>Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>
>>>On Feb 16, 2005, at 2:53 AM, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>* doc/book/book/ch07.xml: Added missing tag around Application Data.
>>>><book.diff>
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks, Grzegorz...
>>>
>>>Is "Application Data" really a path in this paragraph? I think it's
>>>being used more generically... it's talking about a general area on the
>>>system defined by the windows registry. Maybe a win32 expert can speak
>
> up.
>
>>Open explorer and type %APPDATA% in the address bar. It will take you
>>straight to your Application Data folder stored in your profile. :-)
>
>
> The paragraph being referenced is one which refers to a system wide, common,
> Application Data, not the user's "Application Data" directory itself which
> appears in the "\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\" directory
> and is referenced using the APPDATA environment variable. If there is an
> application data area common to all users, it's not in the "\Documents and
> Settings\All Users" tree, or not named "Application Data".
Right. I should've read the entire paragraph. /me crawls back in hole.
-John
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Re: [BOOK PATCH] Adding missing tag around Application Data
Posted by John Szakmeister <jo...@szakmeister.net>.
Brass Tilde wrote:
>>Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>
>>>On Feb 16, 2005, at 2:53 AM, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>* doc/book/book/ch07.xml: Added missing tag around Application Data.
>>>><book.diff>
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks, Grzegorz...
>>>
>>>Is "Application Data" really a path in this paragraph? I think it's
>>>being used more generically... it's talking about a general area on the
>>>system defined by the windows registry. Maybe a win32 expert can speak
>
> up.
>
>>Open explorer and type %APPDATA% in the address bar. It will take you
>>straight to your Application Data folder stored in your profile. :-)
>
>
> The paragraph being referenced is one which refers to a system wide, common,
> Application Data, not the user's "Application Data" directory itself which
> appears in the "\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\" directory
> and is referenced using the APPDATA environment variable. If there is an
> application data area common to all users, it's not in the "\Documents and
> Settings\All Users" tree, or not named "Application Data".
Actually, I spoke too soon.
"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell
Folders" contains a key called "Common AppData". On my system, that
points to "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data". No nifty environment
variable for it though.
-John
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Re: [BOOK PATCH] Adding missing tag around Application Data
Posted by Brass Tilde <br...@insightbb.com>.
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 16, 2005, at 2:53 AM, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> >
> >> * doc/book/book/ch07.xml: Added missing tag around Application Data.
> >> <book.diff>
> >
> >
> > Thanks, Grzegorz...
> >
> > Is "Application Data" really a path in this paragraph? I think it's
> > being used more generically... it's talking about a general area on the
> > system defined by the windows registry. Maybe a win32 expert can speak
up.
>
> Open explorer and type %APPDATA% in the address bar. It will take you
> straight to your Application Data folder stored in your profile. :-)
The paragraph being referenced is one which refers to a system wide, common,
Application Data, not the user's "Application Data" directory itself which
appears in the "\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\" directory
and is referenced using the APPDATA environment variable. If there is an
application data area common to all users, it's not in the "\Documents and
Settings\All Users" tree, or not named "Application Data".
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Re: [BOOK PATCH] Adding missing tag around Application Data
Posted by John Szakmeister <jo...@szakmeister.net>.
Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> On Feb 16, 2005, at 2:53 AM, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
>
>> * doc/book/book/ch07.xml: Added missing tag around Application Data.
>> <book.diff>
>
>
> Thanks, Grzegorz...
>
> Is "Application Data" really a path in this paragraph? I think it's
> being used more generically... it's talking about a general area on the
> system defined by the windows registry. Maybe a win32 expert can speak up.
Open explorer and type %APPDATA% in the address bar. It will take you
straight to your Application Data folder stored in your profile. :-)
-John
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Re: [BOOK PATCH] Adding missing tag around Application Data
Posted by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>.
On Feb 16, 2005, at 2:53 AM, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> * doc/book/book/ch07.xml: Added missing tag around Application Data.
> <book.diff>
Thanks, Grzegorz...
Is "Application Data" really a path in this paragraph? I think it's
being used more generically... it's talking about a general area on the
system defined by the windows registry. Maybe a win32 expert can speak
up.
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Re: [BOOK PATCH] Adding missing tag around Application Data
Posted by Max Bowsher <ma...@ukf.net>.
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> * doc/book/book/ch07.xml: Added missing tag around Application Data.
Approved, go ahead and commit.
To those who were wondering, there is a real folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
and the text in question really is referring to this specific folder, not
"application data" is a general sense.
Max.
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