Got that right. OS 10 has a well defined mechanism to store per user settings (~/Library) and global settings (/Library). Windows has this in c:\<something mumble mumble> and UNIX has it as dot-files in ~ or /etc.
Anyone who writes an app that alters it's own app bundle or (God forbid) binaries is very uninformed, or very lazy.
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Got that right. OS 10 has a well defined mechanism to store per user settings (~/Library) and global settings (/Library). Windows has this in c:\<something mumble mumble> and UNIX has it as dot-files in ~ or /etc.
Anyone who writes an app that alters it's own app bundle or (God forbid) binaries is very uninformed, or very lazy.