Programs on CD

[David Bovill]

Pretty well covered the options there...

> Subject: Programs on CD
> 
> With my nifty new CD burner I can now put software on CD, not just
> online downloads.  Which leads to a problemo...
> 
> As CD's cannot write to themselves, and all of my programs write to
> themselves, saving user info in fields etc., I am assuming the only
> way to put a program on CD is to have it write all data to an
> external file on the user's hard disk.  So if a user is playing a
> game with high scores, the high score data is stored in a file on the
> HD, even if the program itself is on a CD.
> 
> But assuming anything is always a bad idea, so I'd like to know how
> others are handling this, if differently.
> 
> Perhaps the CD would just have an installer to install the program
> onto their hard drive?  Hmm....
> 
> Thoughts, anyone?

Also  have a look at the special folder options - like temp and system etc