[Gretl-users] Gretl program path on Windows

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: about the fact that gretl installs into c:\userdata by default, on Windows (sorry, I seem to have deleted the original message). This is for "historical" reasons. The first people to use gretl in any numbers were my students at Wake Forest University, and c:\userdata is the one directory that our IS department guarantees to back up and replace when student laptops are replaced. But I think it's time to standardize this. I won't attempt it for the 1.5.1 release, but probably for the next. I guess the standard thing is to put gretl itself under "Program Files" and the gretl user directory under "My Documents" (possibly translated in both cases)? (I might add, originally gretl was a bit dodgy in dealing with filenames with embedded spaces -- which made "userdata" attractive -- but I believe that is long since fixed.) Allin Cottrell