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Relative to the user's home directory.</desc>
</deflist>
<p>
The user's home directory is normally taken to be the standard
home directory for that user on the system, but may be overridden
using GNUSTEP_USER_HOME_<em>username</em> to specify an alternative
hoem directory for a specific user, or GNUSTEP_USER_HOME to
specify a directory for all users not otherwise matched.<br />
Specifying an empty string as a directory will cause the standard
system idea of the user's home directory to be used as normal.<br />
This facility allows you to set up directories to hold GNUstep
configuration and defaults information (perhaps readonly files)
for a user account which is not normally given a home directory
(unix daemons etc).
The user's home directory is taken to be the standard
home directory for that user on the system<br />
On unix, that is the user's home directory from the password file,
while on windows it's the value given by the
Win32GetUserProfileDirectory() function.
</p>
<p>
Support is provided to locate OS/PLATFORM directories. A conf file
@ -566,8 +560,10 @@ notice and this notice are preserved.
<p>
Secondly, If the value specified by GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE (or
built into the base library) itself begins with a dot and
slash (./) then the base directory used for relative paths
is the directory containing the gnustep-base library.
slash (./) then the path used for that file is made relative
to the base library.<br />
ie the dot-slash is replaced by the path to the directory
containing the gnustep-base library.
</p>
<p>
So you can bundle the whole lot together in one directory,