[Tutor] where to put configuration files

[Magnus Lyckå]

At 00:09 2003-06-11 -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
>Thanks. So I can test the platform. If it is unix, get the HOME
>variable. If the HOME variable does not exist (which it should?), don't
>install with an error message.
>
>If the platform is Windows, panic!

:)

Another approach is to test for both HOME and USERPROFILE (it can
be argued which you should check for first) and if neither is found,
exit with an error message requesting that either of these (or
possibly just HOME) needs to be set before you run the program.

I don't know how things work on Mac before MacOS X though, if that's
an issue for you...


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