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In article <1992Apr10.070511.291@en.ecn.purdue.edu> davis@en.ecn.purdue.edu  
(Robert E Davis) writes:
> In article <1992Apr10.052308.16112@Csli.Stanford.EDU>  
jwishnie@roadkill.Stanford.EDU (Jeff Wishnie) writes:
> >In article <3533@rosie.NeXT.COM> sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper) writes:
> >> Boy do I have a lot of unwanted crud in my home directory.  
> >> I think a better solution
> >> is to put app related files in
> >> 
> >> ~/Library/Appname/crud_files
> >
> >Even better, why not keep them in the .app directory? That way they travel  
> >with the Application and never have to be seen at all. But, you ask, what  
> >about multiple users defaults, scores, and so on...
> >
> >I'd much rather have:
> >	CoolApp.app/.jwishnie
> >	CoolApp.app/.bfink
> >	CoolApp.app/.escissorhands 
> 
> 	Yeah, but that requires a user to have write access to the
> contents of the file package, which isn't really practical.
Actually, all you have to do is to have a single file in the file package which  
is writable by everyone, not the entire file package.
> Robert

If the app doesn't have a lot of things to save, why not use the Defaults  
mechanism.  It's already set up so that it is invisible to the user, and  
everyone has their own.  It also allows the administrator to set up a global  
option.  I'd much rather have "Tetris Score 86745" show up when I type dread at  
the command line, than have a 6 byte file in my home dir named .tetrisscore.   
Actually, I'd rather have "Tetris HighScores /LocalApps/Tetris.app/highscores"  
in my defaults database.  That way I could compete against everyone on the  
machine, or set my preferences to "Tetris HighScores ~/.tetrisscores" if I was  
hopelessly outclassed by other people on the machine.

Just my $0.02

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