Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows

[Jon Kinsey]

At 15:49 13/10/2003, Holger wrote:
> At 11:54 13.10.2003, Jon Kinsey wrote:
> > At 22:31 11/10/2003, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> > > A number of users have complained about gnubg for windows writing the
> > > settings file (and player statistics, boards, etc.) to the install
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on how to change this? Under unix the environment variable
> > > $HOME points to the user's home directory. Is there a similar
> > > environment variable under windows that point to C:\Document and
> > > Settings\username\?
> >
> > On windows 2000 and windows XP, USERPROFILE points to this directory, not 
> > sure if it's the same on 95/98.
>
> No it doesn't exist at least on Win95. Imho it will certainly also depend 
> on whether Windows is configured for multi-user access or just one 
> standard user for everybody. The appropriate directories will not even exist.

I'm not sure who is having trouble, but my guess is users installing gnubg 
as an admin type user, then trying to play as another user (with less 
rights).  As 95/98 don't usually have multiple users they won't have this 
problem.

Jon