Getting the name for a Mac Users 'home'

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Fri Apr 24 11:30:37 EDT 2009


Hi Adrian,

On the Mac, that's "~/library/fonts".

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On 24 apr 2009, at 17:28, Adrian Williams wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Installing fonts into the Public domain is a breeze:
> MacHD/Library/Fonts/MyNewFont.ttf
>
> But I need to install and uninstall fonts in the Users domain. For  
> example:
> MacHD/Users/someunknownname/Library/Fonts/MyNewFont.ttf
>
> How can I retrieve 'someunknownname' from any computer and place it  
> in a variable in the pathname?
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian




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