From: patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Date: 2002-09-13T23:23:56+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyInline and CrossPlatform concerns (was: Windows XP : RubyInline 1.0.4 Released!)

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote in message news:<200209130216.g8D2GDf13545@sharui.nakada.kanuma.tochigi.jp>...
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 13 Sep 2002 02:40:47 +0900,
> Ryan Davis wrote:
> > >     tmpdir = ENV['TMP'] + "/.ruby_inline"
> > 
> > I've left /tmp in favor of the home directory. Is there something like
> > ENV['HOME'] on win?
> 
> As to NT series, HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH are set.  It may be
> better to set HOME to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, %USERPROFILE%, or
> "My Documents" directory, in NtInitialize().

%USERPROFILE% sounds like the most sensible one to me.

~ Patrick