David Abrahams wrote:
Just out of curiosity: why weren't HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH set in your environment? Aren't they set up for you by Windows?
Still curious, though.
Not all the time, and Windows never ceases to amaze and frustrate me. It turns out that if you lauch a cmd.exe shell as another user, then you don't get these environment variables defined for some reason. Try it and see: Start -> All Programs -> Accessories Now, hold down Shift while right-clicking on "Command Prompt" and select "Run As...". Give the credentials of a different user to have the cmd.exe process lauch as that user. Now observe that the shell has no HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH environment variables!!! Sigh. -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com