Re: HOME directory on W98

Re: HOME directory on W98

[David Vanderschel]

Ken's post does not make much sense to me.  It is hardly surprising that Windows
does not know where your HOME directory is until you have specified a value for
the HOME environment variable.  For Windows 98, that is normally done in
autoexec.bat.  What Ken is talking about sounds to me more like what you have to
do in NT (etc.) in the absence of an autoexec.bat file.

Regards,
  David V.

<gebser@speakeasy.net> wrote in message
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>
> If you're installing emacs on a W98 machine and want to have a .emacs
> file, you need a place to put it where emacs will find it.  You need a
> HOME directory.  But W98 doesn't have any HOME environmental variable.
> But it's easy to create.  Go to:
>
> Start | Control Panel | Classic Menus | System | Advanced |
> Environmental Variables
>
> This opens a window where you can click on "New" to create either a User
> variable or a System variable.  Your choice.
>
> Being that it's Windows, of course you have to reboot.
>
>
> hth,
> ken
>
>
>
>

Re: HOME directory on W98

[gebser]

David,

Thanks for pointing that out.  I meant to say Windows XP.

The mind, they say, is the second thing to go....

ken


At 05:50 (UTC-0000) on Thu, 1 Jul 2004 David Vanderschel said:

= Ken's post does not make much sense to me.  It is hardly surprising
= that Windows does not know where your HOME directory is until you have
= specified a value for the HOME environment variable.  For Windows 98,
= that is normally done in autoexec.bat.  What Ken is talking about
= sounds to me more like what you have to do in NT (etc.) in the absence
= of an autoexec.bat file.
= 
= Regards,
=   David V.
= 
= <gebser@speakeasy.net> wrote in message
= news:mailman.2832.1088611017.1953.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
= >
= > If you're installing emacs on a W98 machine and want to have a .emacs
= > file, you need a place to put it where emacs will find it.  You need a
= > HOME directory.  But W98 doesn't have any HOME environmental variable.
= > But it's easy to create.  Go to:
= >
= > Start | Control Panel | Classic Menus | System | Advanced |
= > Environmental Variables
= >
= > This opens a window where you can click on "New" to create either a User
= > variable or a System variable.  Your choice.
= >
= > Being that it's Windows, of course you have to reboot.
= >
= >
= > hth,
= > ken
= >
= >
= >
= >
= 
= 
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