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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:39:10 +0200
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Martin Krischik wrote:
> Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> 
>>Martin Krischik wrote:
>>
>>>Well, would you install Windows anywhere else? Honestly, there are *to*
>>>many stupid programs around which have serious problems when Windows is
>>>anywhere else then C:\Windows that it never crosses my mind to use
>>>anything else then C:.
> 
>  
> 
>>I still maintain that the best favor Microsoft ever did for programs
>>(if not programmers) was to make the default installation directory
>>for programs be '\Program Files' on the root drive. That finally made
>>everyone deal properly with blanks in file and directory names, on
>>pain of looking ridiculous otherwise. Blanks had been permitted in
>>names for a long time, both in Windows and Unix, but most programs
>>handled them very badly.
> 
> 
> Not in Germany. It's only \Programme here ;-). However I consider it a pain
> in the bud - because the is no easy to access configuration option for it.
> Well there is one, but not easy to access.

You lucky Germans. There must be a translator with some brains over 
there. We Spanish also got "Archivos de programa", which is a ridiculous 
expression for "programas" (then again, I think that "programs" instead 
of "program files" would have been much better).