From: Niklas Baumstark <niklas.baumstark@...>
Date: 2008-08-01T17:42:30+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get special directories?

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:29:08 +0900,
> Niklas Baumstark wrote in [ruby-talk:309767]:
>> > It works with 1.8.7 and 1.8.6-p127 or lator, even on Windows,
>> > and is the cross-platform and official recommended way.
>> 
>> File.expand_path("~") ?
> 
> Yes.

irb(main):001:0> File.expand_path('~')
ArgumentError: couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding `~'
        from (irb):1:in `expand_path'
        from (irb):1

under Windows XP Pro.

Greetings,
Niklas
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