Fred L. Drake wrote: > Now that this idea has fermented for a few days, I'm inclined > to not > like it. It smells of making Unix-centric interface to something > that isn't terribly portable as a concept. I've refrained from jumping in here (as, it seems, have all the Windows users) because this is a god-awful friggin' mess on Windows. From the 10**3 foot view, yes, they have the concept. From any closer it falls apart miserably. In practice, I think you can safely regard a Win9x box as single user. I do sometimes run across NT boxes that mutiple people use, and have separate configurations. It sort of works, sometimes. But there's no $HOME as such. There's HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\S hell Folders with around 16 subkeys, including AppData (which on my system has one entry installed by a program I've never used and didn't know I had). But MSOffice uses the Personal subkey. Others seem to use the Desktop subkey. Still other programs will remember the per-user directories under HKLM\....\<program specific> with a subkey == userid. That said, the above referenced AppData is probably the closest thing to a $HOME directory, despite the fact that it smells, tastes, acts and looks nothing like the *nix counterpart. (An cmd.exe "cd" w/o arg acts like "pwd". I notice that the bash shell requires you to set $HOME, and won't make any guesses.) - Gordon
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