NAME

User - API for locating user information regardless of OS

SYNOPSIS

use User;

my $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new
      (
        -file    => sprintf("%s/%s", User->Home, ".ncfg"),
        -default => 'Default'
      );

DESCRIPTION

This module is allows applications to retrieve per-user characteristics. At present, it contains only one method, Home(), which is used to return a location that can be expected to be a users "Home" directory on either Windows or Unix.

A contribution for Macintosh (or any other number of OS/arch combinations) is greatly solicited.

EXPORT

None by default.

AUTHOR

T.M. Brannon, tbone@cpan.org

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to offer profuse thanks to my fellow perl monk at www.perlmonks.org, the_slycer, who told me where HOME could be found on Windows machines.

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