Where to store read/write files on multi-user systems

[Paolo Mazza]

Thanks Trevor,
it is fine - I can use shell command.
But given the fact that both MAC OS X and WINDOWS XP are multi-user 
systems,   I think Revolution should take into consideration this point 
and set an option  on the "Build standalone" panel  for multi-user 
application.
I think it would be a very useful feature  for the next release of 
Revolution.

Your suggestions would be a good start, and I think they are consistent 
with standard procedures both for MAC OS X and for WINDOWS XP. I do not 
know for the other systems.

Windows XP/2000
* User specific preference files (4 in my list above)- C:/Documents and 
Settings/USERNAME/Application Data/MYAPP
specialFolderPath(26)
* Shared files writable by everyone (2 and 3)- C:/Documents and 
Settings/All Users/Application Data/MYAPP
specialFolderPath(35)

Mac OS X
* User specific preference files (4)- 
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences/MYAPP
specialFolderPath("pref")
* Shared files writable by everyone (2 and 3)- /Users/Shared/MYAPP
specialFolderPath("sdat")

SET PERMISSIONS

get shell("chmod 666 " &quote& MY_FILE_PATH &quote)


Ciao Paolo Mazza




Venerdì, 4 Giu 2004, alle 19:47 Europe/Rome, Trevor DeVore ha scritto:

> On Jun 4, 2004, at 11:31 AM, paolo wrote:
>
>> Referring to MAC OS X I think this is fine:
>>>
>>> Mac OS X
>>> * User specific preference files (4)- 
>>> /Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences/MYAPP
>>> specialFolderPath("pref")
>>> * Shared files writable by everyone (2 and 3)- /Users/Shared/MYAPP
>>> specialFolderPath("sdat")
>>>
>>>
>>
>> However, you have to set permission accordingly.  As far as I know 
>> there is not a way to set permissions from Revolution when you create 
>> a file....  (right?) .. so you can have  problems to read/write files 
>> created by an other user.
>
> You can use the shell command to change the permissions.  I think you 
> would want to chmod 666 the file to make it read/writable by everyone.
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Multimedia
> trevor at mangomultimedia.com
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