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authorAlessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>2017-02-23 11:11:44 +0100
committerAlessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>2017-02-23 11:18:33 +0100
commit7ad5b2e6e851da951dda7b185a86298ca60753e8 (patch)
tree1e0ebe1cf260c957993e42abcd0b277d5c5e0dd2 /docs
parentfef6f8a8608027460ed3014dbfd35a715cfe3cbb (diff)
Improve documentation about TEMP on Windows
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diff --git a/docs/config.rst b/docs/config.rst
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@@ -23,17 +23,8 @@ You can put your own ``glances.conf`` file in the following locations:
``Windows`` %APPDATA%\\glances
==================== =============================================================
-On Windows XP, the ``%APPDATA%`` path is:
-
-::
-
- C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Application Data
-
-Since Windows Vista and newer versions:
-
-::
-
- C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming
+* On Windows XP, ``%APPDATA%`` is: ``C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Application Data``.
+* On Windows Vista and later: ``C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming``.
User-specific options override system-wide options and options given on
the command line override either.
@@ -107,10 +98,13 @@ line.
By default, the ``glances-USERNAME.log`` file is under the temporary directory:
-=========== ======================
+=========== ======
``*nix`` /tmp
-``Windows`` %APPDATA%\\Local\\temp
-=========== ======================
+``Windows`` %TEMP%
+=========== ======
+
+* On Windows XP, ``%TEMP%`` is: ``C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Temp``.
+* On Windows Vista and later: ``C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Temp``.
If you want to use another system path or change the log message, you
can use your own logger configuration. First of all, you have to create