[GRASS-dev] GEM Wizard question

[Michael Barton]

When I've tried to use home without checking for its existence first, I've
had reports of errors back from some users who claim that they do not have
HOME set to anything. So I always try to check to see if it is valid.

Michael


On 5/22/07 11:00 PM, "Hamish" <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> William Kyngesburye wrote:
>> Note - there is a libgis function to get a user's home: G_home().  It
>> should work on all platforms (it has a mingw special case, but maybe
>> it doesn't work on the Win native build?).  It would be handy to have
>> a command equivalent to use in scripts, like g.home.
> 
> Python/SWIG scripting:
>>>> homedir=python_grass6.G_home()
>>>> print homedir
> /home/hamish
> 
> 
> "~" is expanded by the shell AFAIK, so that requires a shell to expand.
> "$HOME" works for me, where doesn't it work Michael?*
> 
> 
> On ms windows there is %HOMEPATH% and %USERPROFILE%.
> No idea how they differ,
> 
> MS Windows Command shell overview:
>  
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us
> /ntcmds_shelloverview.mspx?mfr=true
> 
> 
> [*] GRASS must know where home is, as that's where it looks for .grassrc6.
> 
> lib/init/init.bat does:
>   if "%HOME%"=="" set HOME=%USERPROFILE%
>   set WINGISRC=%HOME%\.grassrc6
> 
> lib/init/init.sh does:
>   GISRCRC="$HOME/.grassrc6"
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
> 

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