[time-nuts] Heather Problem..

[Tom Van Baak]

I like your \Tools suggestion. Some additional solutions:

1) Create a virtual drive letter for Program Files, as in:
    subst P: "c:\profiles files"
Then run p:\heather\heather.exe

2) Use an environment variable, as in:
    set LH="c:\program files\heather\heather.exe"
Then to run heather, type %LH%

3) Create a batch file named LH.bat in some directory in your path. E.g.,
    echo call "c:\program files\heather\heather.exe" %* > LH.bat
Then to run heather, just type LH

/tvb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David J Taylor" <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Heather Problem..


> For any programs which may need user-level access to their directory (e.g. 
> for the user to edit a .INI file) I now use a \Tools\ rather than the 
> Program Files directory, so I would use:
> 
>  C:\Tools\Heather\
> 
> and so forth.  It also avoids the requirement for quotation marks round 
> paths with spaces.  This makes things easier on Windows Vista and Windows-7, 
> although you lose a little protection, so I would only use this for programs 
> I trusted.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
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