Java Pluckerhome (was: alpha jar file containing Plucker distiller now available)

[Edward Rayl]

> Apparently on Windows os.path.expanduser doesn't do quite what one might
> hope.  Some Windows user will have to come up with a fix for this.  I
> can put in a check and error out, though.

Does Windows expand $HOME to something usable? Perhaps $HOME/.pluckerrc
instead of the standard ~/.pluckerrc. Maybe Dirk has some ideas on this.

Nope.  Here's all you have to work with on Win2K (without using cygwin):

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\Edward Rayl\Application Data
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=PETROS
ComSpec=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\
LOGONSERVER=\\PETROS
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
OS=Windows_NT
Os2LibPath=C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
Path=C:\oracle\ora92\bin;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.8\bin;C:\oracle\ora817\
bin;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\bin;C:\j2sdk1.4.0_01\bin;C:\Java\jakarta-a
nt-1.4\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 5 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0502
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINNT
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\EDWARD~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\EDWARD~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
USERDOMAIN=PETROS
USERNAME=Edward Rayl
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Edward Rayl
windir=C:\WINNT

How about just defaulting to the current directory rather than erroring out or using the registry?  Look at:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\The Plucker Team\Plucker]
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Plucker\\"

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