Date   : Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:11:42 +0200
From   : kortink@... (John Kortink)
Subject: [OT-ish] PC equivalent of Library

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 07:56:59 +0200, "Anders Carlsson"
<anders.carlsson@...> wrote:

>J.G. Harston wrote:
>
>> What directory should I create to point %PATH% to?
>
>I agree with Mark McDougall, I doubt there is a common one for your own 
>executables and scripts. As you know, Microsoft usually has a folder for 
>user documents and settings, and subfolders for pictures, music, video etc. 
>Some programs add their own folders in that structure. However I've never 
>seen a folder named "My Programs" or "My Scripts", which suggests to me that 
>users of MS Windows systems usually are not supposed to develop any own 
>software in the first place. Of course software you download and install end 
>up in C:\Program Files or similar folder, and I suppose you could create 
>your own J_G_Harston folder there to keep your custom programs inside, but 
>it would not follow any convention.

Well, calling it 'bin' (for 'binary', not 'wastebin' ...)
is sort of conventional. And it makes sense to put it in
a root directory.

I use E:\Bin for my own stuff (obviously, the drive doesn't
matter, I just happen to store all my non-Windhose code on
E:).


John Kortink

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