Benjamin L. Russell wrote:

This fixed the problem, and on Windows XP Professional, I was able to set GHCi to find .ghci in %HOMEPATH%, which turned out to be c:\Documents and Settings\<username>.

However, I would like to override this setting, and either have GHCi look for .ghci in %HOME%, as opposed to %HOMEPATH% (so that this value is not automatically set by the OS), or to set %HOMEPATH% itself to be c:\home.

However, when I go to the Control Panel, then to the System applet, then to the Advanced tab, then click on the Environment Variables button, and then create an environmental variable called "HOMEPATH" (either local or global), this setting does not override the default setting for this environmental variable, and GHCi still looks for .ghci in the default location (c:\Documents and Settings\<username>).

Does anybody know how to cause GHCi to look for .ghci in c:\home?

Create a .ghci file in c:\Documents And Settings\<user>, with the following contents: :cmd readFile "c:\\home\\.ghci" Cheers, Simon