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From: Christopher C. Stacy
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 1990 22:13

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I have a library which I want to load a kind of init file from the user's home
directory.  Currently, I look at the $HOME environment variable and figure out
the home-dir from that.  However, this loses for "emacs -u", since $HOME is
probably not home directory of the user we are trying to imitate.
Is there a function or variable that has what I want in it?
(Whoever responds should also please tell me where the programmer's manual
is online at MIT, to forstall more dumb questions from me.)

Thanks!
   Chris	<cstacy@ai.mit.edu>

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