[Maxima] Referencing $HOME or ~ in maxima-init.mac

[Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I need to reference my home directory in maxima-init.mac to specify
> the tmp file for maxima to write to. However, $HOME and ~ are not
> recognized and make lisp throw an error. How is the home directory
> referenced in this file?

maxima_userdir appears to be the user's home directory.  Is that enough 
for you?

Ray