Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Directory settings

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:23:48 -0800
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:43:02PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do. The data in the profile 
> directory on win32 will be copied to the server each time
> you do a logoff, so this will copy probably a huge amount of data.

...unless you don't have a roaming profile.  How many people do?

Also, isn't that where *most* applications put their data, by default -
in some directory under your profile directory?  (Presumably that's why
profile directories get put under "Documents and Settings" in NT 5.x.)

> Also some people reported, that the working dir must be the same as the 
> exe's dir, to work together with GTK-Wimp,
> however, I didn't tested this myself.

That sounds like a severe botch in GTK-Wimp.