Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:56:24 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Dave Pearson <davep DOT news2 AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs getting confused about location of ~/.emacs
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On Thu, 28 May 1998, Dave Pearson wrote:

> On this new machine it would appear that emacs is confused about where my
> home directory is. For example, evaluating:
> 
>    (expand-file-name user-init-file)
> 
> results in:
> 
>    "C:/~DAVEP/_emacs"
> 
> if I'm in the root of drive C. It would also appear that emacs thinks it
> should find the init-file in:
> 
>    "<CurrentLocation>/~DAVEP/_emacs"

Please describe the shortest way to reproduce these problems,
including the exact text of the lines in your AUTOEXEC.BAT which set
HOME, how you invoke Emacs (please use the -q switch), and in what
directory.  I tried to reproduce this problem, but couldn't.  I use
Emacs 20.2 for a long time, and never had such problems.

> The only (obvious) difference between these two machines is that my existing
> machine is Win95 OSR1 and the new one is Win95 OSR2.

I don't think this should be relevant.