From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-04-16T19:15:29+09:00
Subject: Re: windows newbie question

Hi,

At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:53:33 +0900,
Christophe Broult wrote:
> > under Unix, I have my (ruby) application under /usr/local/myapp
> > and the user's configuration files under $HOME/.myapp
> > under Windows, suppose I put my application under c:\program files,
> > where should I put user configuration files ?
> 
> running the set command on my system revealed the following variable:
> 
> USERPROFILE=C:\WINNT\Profiles\cbroul
> 
> Maybe you should use that. I do not know if it is available on all Windows
> system though. However, I believe that storing the configuration into the
> user profile would be a good idea.

Win9x don't set it.  How about making File.expand_path("~")
under mingw32/mswin32 result "My Document" directory?

-- 
Nobu Nakada