{"id":36053,"date":"2005-03-28T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/03\/28\/when-a-program-asks-you-a-question-and-then-gets-upset-if-you-answer-it\/"},"modified":"2005-03-28T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T07:04:00","slug":"when-a-program-asks-you-a-question-and-then-gets-upset-if-you-answer-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050328-00\/?p=36053","title":{"rendered":"When a program asks you a question and then gets upset if you answer it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jeffdav\/archive\/2004\/10\/04\/237816.aspx\"> JeffDav&#8217;s story of a program that didn&#8217;t like it when he told it where to install<\/a> reminded me of another program that we dealt with during Windows&nbsp;95 development.\n This was a big-name program developed by one of the biggest-of-the-big name software companies.  Let&#8217;s give this program the imaginary name &#8220;LitWare&#8221;. Its setup program asked you where you wanted the program to be installed, and it suggested &#8220;C:\\LITWARE&#8221;. If you accepted the default, then everything proceeded normally.\n However, if you changed the default to <strong>anything else<\/strong>, the setup program ran to completion, but the program itself wouldn&#8217;t run.\n Because the program contained the hard-coded path &#8220;C:\\LITWARE&#8221; and insisted that it find its support files in that directory.<\/p>\n<p> At least Jeff&#8217;s program realized that it was about to be installed into a directory where it would fail to work! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JeffDav&#8217;s story of a program that didn&#8217;t like it when he told it where to install reminded me of another program that we dealt with during Windows&nbsp;95 development. This was a big-name program developed by one of the biggest-of-the-big name software companies. Let&#8217;s give this program the imaginary name &#8220;LitWare&#8221;. Its setup program asked you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-36053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>JeffDav&#8217;s story of a program that didn&#8217;t like it when he told it where to install reminded me of another program that we dealt with during Windows&nbsp;95 development. This was a big-name program developed by one of the biggest-of-the-big name software companies. Let&#8217;s give this program the imaginary name &#8220;LitWare&#8221;. Its setup program asked you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}