Re: problem with all windows emacs distributions

[Eric Hanchrow]

>From (info "(emacs)General Variables"):
`HOME'
     The location of your files in the directory tree; used for
     expansion of file names starting with a tilde (`~'). ...  On
     Windows, the default value of `HOME' is the `Application Data'
     subdirectory of the user profile directory (normally, this is
     `C:/Documents and Settings/USERNAME/Application Data', where
     USERNAME is your user name), though for backwards compatibility
     `C:/' will be used instead if a `.emacs' file is found there.


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