PLUG-discuss digest, Vol 1 #2027 - 14 msgs

[George Toft]

"Craig S." wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Message: 11
> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:51:12 -0500
> > From: George Toft <george@georgetoft.com>
> > To: PLUG Discuss <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> > Subject: Calling all bigots
> > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >
> > My wife's shiny new computer, with Windows XP preloaded, had to
> > be rebooted this weekend after an appalling 60 days of uptime.
> > Look out Linux, it looks like Microsoft is on to something.  Now
> > all I have to do is figure out how my son can play his games
> > without being an administrator.
> >
> > George
> >
> 
> Put the games in /bin or /usr/local/games
> 
> "man chmod" should give you the info you  need for getting other users to the files (generally the executable file).
> 
> then in your /home/whoever/games dir make a symbolic link to the game in /bin or /usr/local/games
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> I pretty much use /usr/local for games I want to be accessed across my LAN (when I finally configure it) but use /bin if you want to.
> Some people put only system utilities in /usr/local and games and other stuff in /bin. Whatever floats your boat, your the admin.
> 


Hi Craig,

This is on an XP system.  Everything wants to go in c:\Program Files  :)

George