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[Gcl-devel] RE: GCL on Windows
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Page, Bill |
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[Gcl-devel] RE: GCL on Windows |
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Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:10:37 -0500 |
On Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:48 AM Camm Maguire wrote:
>
> Greetigns! Does Windows not recognize the ~ expansion in
> MSYS? If it does, and gcl is not picking it up for some
> reason, I'd like to get the truename to work. What about
> (truename (si::getenv "HOME"))?
>
In MSYS ~ is expanded as $HOME = /home/username as you would
expect in a unix shell environment. But being a single user
system by design native Windows does not have any exact
equivalent of /home/username. Axiom for Windows does not
assume that it is run from within the MSYS environment.
The closest thing to /home/username is perhaps
c:\Documents and Settings\username
on Windows 2000/XP systems but the analogy is not exact and
it is not used the same way by most windows applications.
Under Axiom for Windows we get
(1) -> )lisp (truename (si::getenv "HOME"))
>> System error:
Cannot coerce NIL to a PATHNAME.
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because the environment variable HOME is not defined.
Regards,
Bill Page.
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