Re: Re: (OT) cross-platform $HOME

On XP, you can short-circuit the route to the Application Data directory using $ENV{ APPDATA }, but I'm not sure when (which version) this became available. It wasn't there on NT4, so I think your suggestion is probably better if backwards compatiblity is a concern.

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Re: Re: Re: (OT) cross-platform $HOME by allolex (Curate) on Feb 23, 2004 at 15:37 UTC
++BrowserUK. This approach is also better because it supports locales. The application data directory is not always called "Application Data" (e.g. in the German locale it's called "Anwendungsdateien"). -- Allolex	[reply]