From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-10-14T12:31:57+09:00
Subject: Re: IRB under windows ...

Jeff Wood...
> By default, there doesn't seem to be a "HOME" environment variable for
> windows ...

I have it on all my machines. I don't know where it came from; I'd assumed 
it was there by default. It's the same as USERPROFILE.