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