[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44694] prefdir returns a blank result on Windows 8

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #44694 (project octave):

It occurs to me that simply exporting HOME = HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH once when
Octave starts won't do the right thing if someone sets the HOMEDRIVE or
HOMEPATH environment variables in an Octave program and expects those to
change Octave's behavior.  So rather than expecting getenv ("HOME") to work, I
guess the correct thing is to provide a system dependent function that returns
the home directory location and use that consistently instead of getenv.

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