Re: accessing environment variables in Lisp expressions

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From: John "Jack" Repenning
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 21:46

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In article <9105022259.AA17238@aaec.com.uucp> tsilva%aaec1.UUCP@DSPVAX.MIT.EDU (Tony Silva) writes:

   I can't seem to figure out how to utilize the $HOME environment
   variable.

I don't quite follow all the details in your original posting, but
does this do what you wanted?

       (setq mail-archive-file-name
             (substitute-in-file-name "$HOME/SMAIL.tmp"))



Jack Repenning			9U-530	     jackr@wpd.sgi.com
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