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> From: Sid.Kode@ni.com
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:41:46 -0500
> 
> I do not have a C:drive and emacs tries to auto-save on the c: drive since 
> the emacs settings dir is set to "c:.emacs". Emacs crashes when it tries 
> to auto-save since there is no C: drive, is there a way for me to change 
> this option to "f:.emacs"?

Define the HOME environment variable to point to some directory, and
move your .emacs there as well.  (Auto-saves go to the home directory,
which on Windows defaults to C:\.)

That doesn't mean Emacs should crash, so please provide the details of
the crash: what line of code crashes and why.