Re: [Gnumed-devel] Portable GNUmed issue

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Mittwoch 24 September 2008, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > > > I think the GNUmed client makes a \.gnumed  folder in the HARDDRIVE
> >
> > with
> >
> > > > all
> > > > the GNUmed config files in the  "current user" folder.
> >
> > This sucks and I will try to remove that and rather make sure it will
> > write to
> > the stick. It should be possible. The stick is writeable so we should be
> > able
> > to make gnumed write in a directory on the stick maybe if we start it
> > with a  special commandline argument ?
>
> Well you could tweak the startup shell script to symlink the .gnumed to
> someplace on the stick.
>
> That is a good use for the local gnumed shell scripts at the user or system
> level.
>
> Sounds doable.
>
No. There is no such thing as easy symlinking on Windows. So we are bound to a 
location we know is on the stick and need to tell GNUmed to use this 
directory.




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