Home directory problem

[Nagy László Zsolt]

Hi All! I wonder if there is a standard way to determine a user's local 
directory. I know that unix compatible machines has an enviroment 
variable called 'HOME'. Windows 2000 and XP machines have an enviroment 
variable called 'HOMEPATH'. But I don't know how to read this on Win9X, 
Mac and the possible others. Is there a standard way? Some details: I'm 
writting a multi platform two-tiered source code management tool. The 
clients need to store some information locally. This information must be 
separated from other users. I'm using dumbdbm and I'm searching the 
right place for the config database. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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