From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2007-10-02T04:59:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.chdir patch for MS Windows

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Lavena [mailto:luislavena@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 1:55 PM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Dir.chdir patch for MS Windows
> 
> 
> On 10/1/07, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Dir.chdir without any arguments will usually raise an error on MS 
> > Windows because ENV['HOME'] is not typically set. This 
> patch resorts 
> > to USERPROFILE on Windows instead of LOGDIR. It also 
> updates the rdoc.
> >
> 
> Daniel, that will fail on a Corporative environment.

I'm in a corporate environment. Works here.
 
> USERPROFILE points to "Document and Settings\USERNAME" 
> folder, and under corporative environments, the HOME is a 
> combination of HOMEDRIVE
> + HOMEPATH instead.

If HOME is set then USERPROFILE won't be used. Anyway, this is at least
a little better than the current behavior. If you have a better patch
I'm listening.

Regards,

Dan 


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