Isaac makes an important point (although I'm not sure it's the point he intended to make :) ), there is really nothing in the definition of UNIX itself that specifies or requires a home directory. It's a convention followed by shells, primarily.
Seth On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:36:55 -0500 Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felix Martini wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2007 3:38 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > >> No, the two are not the same. It is the User Profile folder. > >> It is not a Unix-style home directory - there is no such concept > >> on Windows. The two are used very differently. > > > > I guess we disagree about that. I believe what Micosoft calls the user > > profile folder is equivalent to what is called the user home folder in > > Unix. This is especially obvious in Vista, most folder names are the > > same as in OSX, e.g. C:\Users\Felix\Music and /Users/Felix/Music. > > FWIW, here on Linux I didn't like all my automatically > generated-in-$HOME stuff being spewed all over my own organization, so > > ]echo $HOME > /Users/me/HOME > (I'm in GoboLinux which uses "/Users" rather than "/home", which isn't > important to this) > > and my .zshrc has > cd; cd .. > (a.k.a. cd /Users/me) > to take me to my personal home directory in the non-Unix sense. It's a > bit of a nuisance sometimes, but worth it for me; the worst that happens > is sometimes I have to go up a level first in file-chooser dialogs or > "~/../" paths. > > Isaac > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users