Re: [h-e-w] Cannot put .emacs in C:\. Help. - Fixed

[mikeruth]

Michael,

This did work for me.  Must have something to do with the way the admins
have this PC locked up.
Richard's suggestion seems to work.  I will test it more over the next few
days.

Thanks.


Michael Flynn wrote:
> 
> When I installed emacs on windows I found, without my doing anything, it
> looked in the windows equivalent of ~, that is C:\Documents and
> Settings\<user name>
> For example: C:\Documents and Settings\Mike
> And as Richard suggested, setting an environment variable called HOME
> works
> great too.
> 
> On 8/23/06, mikeruth <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Cannot put .emacs in C:\ (company policy).  I tried putting it into
>> C:\.emacs.d (which
>> emacs created during weak moment in the PC setup yesterday).  I tried in
>> "Documents and Settings\username".  Nothing has worked.  Help.
>>
>> I am using emacs 21.3.1 for NT.
>>
>> Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
>>
>> Mike
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