[ scummvm-Bugs-1088136 ] SCUMM: HE games create files in wrong location (Regression)

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Bugs item #1088136, was opened at 2004-12-20 12:01
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Category: Unknown Crash/Other
Group: All Games
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 7
Submitted By: Travis Howell (kirben)
Assigned to: Max Horn (fingolfin)
Summary: SCUMM: HE games create files in wrong location (Regression)

Initial Comment:
Latest ScummVM CVS (Either branch)
Compiled with GCC 3.4.2 under mingw.
All HE games.

ScummVM currently creates files in the directory 
ScummVM was started from. While before ScummVM 
would create files in the game's data files directory.
This is caused by changes in common/file.cpp revision 
1.173.
This causes regressions, for example:
Changes to the colors of paintings in fbpack are no 
longer saved, since the 'fbpack.pal' file is created in 
wrong location.
The original versions of HE games always created files in 
the game's data files directory. HE games usually 
create/delete a 'test' file to check if directory is writiable 
on startup and handle any file errors via scripts.
This could 



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