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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Cannot-put-.emacs-in-C%3A%5C.--Help.-tf2154534.html#a5951604 >> Sent from the Emacs - Windows - Help forum at Nabble.com. >> > > -- > Michael Flynn > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 408.768.6400 cell > 408.358.4041 home > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Cannot-put-.emacs-in-C%3A%5C.-Help.-tf2178773.html#a6028656 Sent from the Emacs - Windows - Help forum at Nabble.com.
