20051117: "Sitepath" problems with IDV v1.2

Hi Dave,

> I've been beating my head against the wall trying to persuade IDV v1.2
> (running on our Macs, OS X v10.3.9) to access non-default resource files
> specified using the -sitepath parameter on the runIDV script command line.
> I can't for the life of me get this to work, and I've begun to wonder if
> this isn't symptomatic of a bug.
>
> Here's the picture:
>
>   (1) We can run "runIDV" on a Mac in our student computer lab, logged on
> as "student", a generic student access account on every machine. The IDV
> creates and subsequently uses default resources files stored in
> ~student/.metapps/DefaultIdv.
>  
[...]
Sorry you have been having this problem. The -sitepath tells the IDV 
where to pick up extra resources
and is meant to share a set of common resources among a group of users. 
This however, is for reading.
The IDV still uses ~/.metapps/DefaultIdv to read and write  user 
specific resources.

There is a command line argument that will solve your problems:
-userpath
So doing:

runIDV -userpath /h/users/students/acctname/IDV/DefaultIdv

Should solve your problem.

Note: You  can still use -sitepath so all of your students can share common 
things.

-Jeff