Re: can't find home directory

lind> This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, lind> not to your local site managers!! lind> Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have lind> translators to read other languages for them. lind> Please describe as succinctly as possible: lind> - What happened. lind> - What you thought should have happened. lind> - Precisely what you were doing at the time. lind> Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. lind> ================================================================ lind> Dear Bug Team! lind> On startup I get this message: lind> (1) (user-files-and-directories/warning) lind> XEmacs was unable to determine a good value for the user's $HOME lind> directory, and will be using the value: lind> C:\ lind> This is probably incorrect. lind> Even though I have set the HOME environment variable in my lind> autoexec.bat file AND as a string in the system registry. Please provide the exact line from autoexec.bat. Please export the registry key in question using regedit and send us the resulting REGEDIT4 file (just for that key, not the whole registry!). Please send us the value you get in XEmacs when evaluating following form with C-u C-x C-e (I have included my result): (getenv "HOME") "C:\\Users\\AichnerAd" Please send us the output of following lisp form (I have included my results): (directory-files (getenv "HOME") nil "^\\.e" nil t) (".emacs" ".emacs-2.bmk" ".emacs-i386-pc-win32" ".emacs-i386-pc-win32~" ".emacs-i586-pc-win32" ".emacs-i586-pc-win32.~1.26~" ".emacs-i586-pc-win32.~1.27~" ".emacs-i586-pc-win32~" ".emacs-places" ".emacs.bmk" ".emacs.bmk~" ".emacs.mini" ".emacs.orig") lind> ================================================================ lind> System Info to help track down your bug: lind> --------------------------------------- lind> OS version: lind> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] lind> OS: Windows_NT lind> XEmacs 21.4.5 \"Civil Service (Windows)\" configured for `i586-pc-win32'. <lines deleted by Adrian> -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/