Rick, I was just reading over this and understood it. Actually, my home directory IS called 'mac'. It's kinda confusing when i use an apple computer. thanks though. I hope you got a little chuckle, at least. mac On Feb 19, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote: > I think that you might be confusing the current directory with the > home > directory. > > The home directory is associated with your userid. In OS X that > should be > > /Users/username/ > > For example on my machine my userid is rick, so > > $ ls ~/.irbrc