Instance Directory

To be able to work with different instances of a file (that is, several files having the same name but different contents), the absolute file paths entered in the ufiles.sxp, ufiles.cmp, and udirs.sxp archive files are extended by a so-called instance directory:

The Packager's recording procedure defines a recorded user-specific file to be the first instance of this file. The absolute path of this file then gets the subdirectory 1 assigned.

Example illustrating the creation of an instance directory by the recording procedure:

SxpHomeDir:

D:\USERS\HUGO

Recorded user-specific file:

D:\USERS\HUGO\dictionaries\german.dic

Resulting file path in ufiles.sxp, ufiles.cmp, udirs.sxp:

$(SxpHomeDir)\1\dictionaries\german.dic