Re: Applications Messaging Standard

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:00:10 +0000

Tony Linde wrote:
> One point since we're mentioning languages: do other languages have
> the concept of a 'home' directory? We know that it'll work for java
> and .net languages, but do python, perl etc have commands to get
> the 'home' directory which will return the same directory as java
> does?

Yes, because the concept of a home directory is one which underlies most of the modern operating systems. It's an operating system layer thing, not a language layer thing.

Al. Received on 2007-02-15Z20:00:39