Eero Ahonen wrote:
> I don't want to turn this to flamewar, but what is a better mechanism to
> get same data readable from two different directories with the same
> filename? 

Don't do that. :-)

> Should the data location be written to registry and checked by
> there before reading?

Exactly. Code the indirection into your program instead of littering the 
file system with it. In other words, store the name of the file in two 
places, rather than making it look like there's two files. Bump the 
indirection up a level - indirect to find the file name, instead of 
indirecting to find the data.

Or use a "shortcut", which gets automatically updated when you move the 
"real" file somewhere else, even if it's someone moving a file on a network 
share.

Sure, occasionally it's more of a PITA (especially in complex development 
environments where the tools aren't necessarily sufficiently configurable), 
but it tends to keep things cleaner in the long run, especially when you 
realize that the Windows file systems are a forest, including trees not even 
on your machine, for example.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
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