Board:   [fsxNet] BBS Software Development/Support
Subject: Re: Crazy idea
From:    Dumas Walker(21:1/175)
Date:    Wed Sep 30, 2026 14:48

DM>   Re: Re: Crazy idea
DM>   By: Exodus to Nightfox on Lun Ago 31 2026 08:07 pm
DM>
DM>  > I don't feel it should be an account program for a BBS ...
DM>  > it should be able to be deleted byh removing the directory.
DM>  > It's a telnet app, not a huge program that needs "installed"
DM>  > into the OS.  Everything is uses should be in the directory
DM>  > it unzips/runs from.
DM>
DM> So you don't like that SyncTERM stores data/files where
DM> Microsoft says (and provides APIs to get those locations) that
DM> Windows applications should store them. And that's why you
DM> CAN'T STAND SyncTERM? And that makes logical sense to you?
DM>
DM> For the record, you don't have to install SyncTERM to use it
DM> and you can delete it by removing whatever directory you copied
DM> it into. But some data/files that it created could remain
DM> after. Because for many good reasons, data and programs are not
DM> stored in the same directories in modern OSes. --

Maybe he would like it better if it had an uninstall option that would catch the stuff that gets put "where Microsoft says" when it is beyond the Syncterm directory?

I use it on linux and have not noticed such issues.  It runs from wherever I put it.


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