Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] change location of preferences dir '.ethereal' on W2K

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:33:05 -0700
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:51:04PM +0200, "Bühler, Roland" wrote:
> the pref dir is created automatically in my homedrive (which is a network
> drive). How can I change this location? Using an environment var like
> ETHEREAL_DIR=C:\.ethereal?

Ethereal derives the path of your home directory, on Windows, from the
HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH environment variables; there is no provision for
overriding that.