From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-10-02T09:51:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.chdir patch for MS Windows

Hi,

At Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:50:29 +0900,
Berger, Daniel wrote in [ruby-core:12328]:
> 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.

In 1.9, when ENV['HOME'] isn't set, it will be set using
HOMEDRIVE+HOMEPATH, USERPROFILE, and "Personal" special-folder
if they are all unset.

-- 
Nobu Nakada