[fpc-pascal] Locating the users HOME folder

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Mon Feb 1 20:28:55 CET 2010



On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Vincent Snijders wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt schreef:
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>> But it has been a regular request to add this to sysutils.
>> 
>> Please file a feature request in the bug tracker, so we won't forget it.
>> (preferably with implementation patch ;) )
>
> Are you sure? Peter Vreman asked for a $HOME macro in lazarus and Mattias 
> implemented after it was implemented in SysUtils.
>
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/getuserdir.html

I must be getting old ans suffer from amnesia :-)

I added that function myself somewhere in 2008 :(

Michael.



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