dired starts with / instead of $HOME in Carbon Emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

When trying to dired out of the *Messages* or *Help* buffers the path 
starts with / and not $HOME or ~/.

Calendar, diary, holidays, scratch, shell, mail are OK.



In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0)
 of 2005-05-09 on Latsche.local
Distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.3.9
configured using `configure '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local' 
'CFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Dired by date

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  mouse-sel-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  next-error-follow-minor-mode:  Fol


--
Greetings

  Pete

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