saving settings

[SuperHik]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> 
>> Documents and settings aren't quite the same thing, but it's a
>> valid point.
>>
>>> Especially not the ones you wrote on that other machine.
>>>
>>> Seriously: Who is going to copy a executable around?
>> I do.  I copy putty.exe around all of the time.
> 
> I download it every time, and if I didn't, I'd be pretty annoyed if I'd copy
> it to a friends machine containing ALL MY KEYS embedded into it.
> 
>>> Do you know of any other program that behaves like that?
>> Back in the day, that used to be fairly common under
>> DOS/Windows.  Not that it's still not a really bad idea.
> 
> Back in the day self-modifying code was the craze too. And _some_ people
> even do it in python :) 
those crazy bastards! ;)
> 
> Diez