[please keep CC, since I'm not currently in the list] I'm Running Win98 with IE 5. For some reason the ~ is not interpreted as HOME -- My Home disks are under drive d: -- And Unix replicate is on drive e: (setenv "HOME" "d:/home/jaalto/") (expand-file-name "~") "e:\\usr\\local\\bin\\emacs\\xemacs\\XEmacs-21.1.6\\i386-pc-win32\\home\\jaalto\\" Since expand-file-name is used in numerous places I tried to fix this with simple advice code. But using the adviced function makes Xemacs to die with windows exception :-) (defun my-expand-file-name (path) "Expand ~ to mean HOME. XEmacs 21.1.6 win32 expands it somehow wrong." (let ((home (getenv "HOME")) ) (cond ((string-match "~/" path) (concat (file-name-as-directory home) (substring path 2))) ((string-match "~" path) (file-name-as-directory home)) (t path )))) (when (string-match "21\.1.*win32" (emacs-version)) (defadvice expand-file-name (before my act) "Replace Function with `my-expand-file-name'." (ad-set-arg 0 (my-expand-file-name (ad-get-arg 0))))) (expand-file-name "~") C-xC-e ---> and XEmacs is taken down by the Win98.... jari