On Wed 03 Mar, Dan Ingalls wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 08:00:31AM -0500, kpgrant at mindspring.com wrote:
> >> .... We're still thinking about how to install it on the
> >> department system and, knowing a little bit more about what these
> >> files are for, a new question comes up.  As it stands now every student
> >> who wants to play with squeak will need to have his own copy of all 4
> >> files (or at least 3, since it seems you can do without the source
> >> file if necessary).  This means an extra 8 to 14 megs of disk space
> >> per student.  Is there any convenient way around this?  
There is yet another option for handling this, surprise surprise.

Keep all the file (sources condensed etc as described before) in one place.
Make a unix script that will start Squeak using the VM and image in the
'standard place'.
Change the image to save changes in the users current directory rather than the
path derived from the image name.
Change the image to allow saving of the image in a different directory than the
one from which it was started.
(optional but strongly advised) Change the image such that the first thing a
'fresh' image does is urge the user to save it in their own directory under
their own choice of name.

Somewhere I have some code that allows saving images in a different directory -
I'll try to dig it out.

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