Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I have no idea what is right on OS X.

ENV[ 'HOME' ]

for example my "home" is :

/Users/yt

(never tried the File.expand_path('~') ) BUT on Mac OS X shell ~ expand
to home.

also i worry about the way win* representent pathes with \

does that means that, in ruby, there is no platform-independant way to
representant pathes, as, for example in Java ?
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