[tex-live] dates

[Robin Fairbairns]

Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh at Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org> wrote:
 
> Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> 
> >  > The problem was TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf and that $HOME is usually not
> >  > set on Windows.
> >  >
> >  > I provided a lot of suggestions how to set TEXMFHOME to something
> >  > reasonable but none of them had been acceptable for Staszek.
> >  >
> >  > He preferred to remove TEXMFHOME from TEXMF for no good reason.  He
> >  > even did not reply to my mails.
> >
> > As I wrote several times, HOME is not set in Windows and/or can be
> > differently interpreted on different Windows versions.
> 
> For XP/PRO, the following pair seem to be what is needed :
> 
> 	HOMEDRIVE=C:
> 	HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Administrator

itym, for *your* xp/pro, when you're logged-in as "administrator".

i have

      homedrive=h:
      homepath=\

(and, fwiw, homeshare pointing to the path associated with h:)

i doubt those variables _are_ available in all win32 systems, but i've
none other here (though i could sneak a login on one of the experimental
vista machines ... my machine isn't man enough for vista).