Re: Writing journal and output file to current directory

[Ben Pfaff]

"Michel Boaventura" <address@hidden> writes:

> The other solution would be install the program in the user folder,
> but each user of the machine will need to install it.

Is that done by any common Windows software?

> In a big network this should be a problem. It will be hard to
> implement? Because we can tell people that for now pspp only works
> in a world writable folder and let this problem for now.

Does it make more sense to do that than to pick a default
user-writable directory?  Or should we prompt the user (perhaps
only the first time the user runs PSPP) for a place to put these
files?

I'd like to come up with a good solution, rather than an easy
solution, unless the good solution is *very* hard :-)
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