From: martin.ankerl@... (Martin Ankerl) Date: 2004-08-18T09:00:57+09:00 Subject: Path of Home directory I am writing a ruby application (http://speedreader.rubyforge.org/), where I would like to store some user information to something like ~/.speedreader, and a similar path in windows. I know that in Linux I can get this path with Dir.chdir homewd = Dir.pwd Does this work in windows too? I have currently no access to a windows machine. Martin