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(04-13-2016 10:59 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  As I mentioned, OrCAD/PSpice has been having fun with my environment variables. On this computer:
HOMEPATH=\
HOME=C:\Users\<me>\AppData\Roaming\SPB_Data

SPB_Data belongs to OrCAD/PSpice.

Bob, if you execute "echo %HOME%" what do you get? I believe HOME is correct in most cases, but apparently not all.

"Echo %home%" simply displays "%home%", which is correct if there is no environment variable called "home" defined.

HOMEPATH is used by Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 10. I don't have a Win-8 machine to test, but it's almost certainly the same (and if not, who cares, since the 9 happy Win-8 users probably aren't members here).

FYI, you can just type "set" at a command prompt to see all the currently defined env. variables.

It seems that OrCAD/PSpice (whatever that is) (ab)uses environment variables in an odd and non-standard way, though it's not of much general consequence as very few programs use environment variables these days. Probably a vestige of ancient versions of that program, which they hacked to use under more modern OS's while using the old environment setup. (but that's just a guess)