# SCIHOME

contains the path to preferences, history files of your Scilab session.

## Description

The `SCIHOME` contains the path to preferences, history files of your Scilab session.

`SCIHOME` definition:

On Windows XP: "C:/Documents and Settings/<User>/Scilab/<Scilab-Version>"

On Windows Vista and Seven: "C:/User/AppData/Roaming/<User>/Scilab/<Scilab-Version>"

based on Windows %HOMEPATH% environment variable.

On GNU/Linux or Unix: /home/<User>/.Scilab/<Scilab-Version>

On Mac OS X: /Users/lt;User>/.Scilab/<Scilab-Version>

<User> is your current login name

<Scilab-Version> is current version of Scilab used.

## Examples

    disp(SCIHOME);
    isdir(SCIHOME)

## See Also

- SCI

- TMPDIR