Re: $ENV HOME on windows

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HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Username

What puzzles me deep is why Perl on Windows is not faking $ENV{HOME}
if $ENV{HOMEPATH} and $ENV{HOMEPATH} are both present... I think this
would remove at least 10-20% of porting problems...

Yours,
Ilya
.

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