Re: [boost] Attention Boosters - "My Documents"

From: Janek Kozicki (janek_listy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-12 05:25:06

David Abrahams said:     (by the date of Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:16:50 -0500)

> > Section 9)
> > I have no idea what you want to tell by:
> > One way to name a directory you know about is to write
> 
> Oh.  I am trying to help GUI-only people who don't know how to
> navigate the directory tree.  I was assuming some people think the
> world begins with "My Documents" and don't know how to write its
> path.  Am I being overprotective?  
> 
> Even if there *are* people like that out there, if I can't say
> sometihng intelligible it only hurts, so I'm inclined to remove it.

In my experience, people that I've met, who think that the world
starts at "My Documents" give a blank stare when I start talking
about writing programs myself. Word "compilation" is a buzzword.

IMHO you can remove this :)

No wait. Actually it contains an information I didn't know about(*) -
namely - what is %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, so maybe just rephrase this:

Replace "One way to name ..." with

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"To set current directory to your "My Documents" folder type:
   cd %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
this can be useful if you got lost in the directory tree"
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(*) I feel like I should explain myself - I removed windows partition
from my hdd in 1999, and currently I use windows only occasionally in
vmware :)
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Janek Kozicki                                                         |