[quake3] fs_homepath write protected, Windows 2000

[Justin Barrera]

well under user accounts you should use %appdata%, nothing should be written
to program files cept for when you install a program in there.  all else
wise all data should be saved in %appdata%, else wise if I'm running LUA
than i will get accessed denided errors trying to run q3

On 10/9/07, Henry Garcia <defsyn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/8/07, Justin Barrera <tech.salvager at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > you shouldn't use, ioquake3.x86.exe +set fs_homepath "c:\Program
> > Files\Quake III Arena"
> > on 2k and above you should use ,ioquake3.x86.exe +set fs_homepath
> > "%programfiles%\Quake III Arena"
> > I don't have a C: drive and hard codeding it to there isn't good
> >
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> I agree using the %PROGRAMFILES% environment variable is preferable to
> hard coding. But using that variable, nevertheless, still gives the same
> result. : The console reports that fs_homepath is "C:\Program"  default is
> "C:\Documents and Settings\blah...blah\blah"
>
> The last message to pop up when using the %PROGRAMFILES% variable in the
> console is the following: fs_homepath is write protected.
>
> Apparently whenever the code catches a space in the fs_homepath parameter
> it automatically spits out the message, fs_homepath is write protected and
> the sets all the letters before the first occurring space as the
> fs_homepath.
>
> There must be some way to tell the program about a space in the
> fs_homepath parameter: %APPDATA% has spaces all over the place and yet it is
> saved in the program correctly by default--unless you try to use
> ioquake3.x86.exe +set fs_homepath "%APPDATA%\Quake3"
>
> then it sets fs_homepath to "C:\Documents"
>
> Hank
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