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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl>
>> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:35:05 +0200
>> 
>> It is Emacs 22. I could take it of from my usb-stick and put it in C
>> \temp\emacs. (Temp is never cleared -why call it temp then?- so that
>> works.) But Emacs wants to write to C:\.emacs and that is not allowed. I
>> but something in C:\temp\emacs and load it with load-library. Not
>> perfect, but it will not get better I am afraid.
> 
> Why can't you have an autorun file on the stick that sets HOME to
> point to the stick drive?  Then you could have your .emacs on the
> stick as well.

I prefer not to use an USB-stick for this. I did this only because I had no
room on the system. I can use C:\temp, so I put everything there. In the
morning I just give load-library.
Thanks anyway.