1.66.3 Directory class: reading system defaults

execPrefix

Answer the path to GNU Smalltalk’s executable installation prefix

home

Answer the path to the user’s home directory

image

Answer the path to GNU Smalltalk’s image file

kernel

Answer the path in which a local version of the GNU Smalltalk kernel’s Smalltalk source files were searched when the image was created.

libexec

Answer the path to GNU Smalltalk’s auxiliary executables

localKernel

Answer the path to the GNU Smalltalk kernel’s Smalltalk source files. Same as ‘Directory kernel’ since GNU Smalltalk 3.0.

module

Answer the path to GNU Smalltalk’s dynamically loaded modules

prefix

Answer the path to GNU Smalltalk’s installation prefix

systemKernel

Answer the path to the installed Smalltalk kernel source files.

temporary

Answer the path in which temporary files can be created. This is read from the environment, and guessed if that fails.

userBase

Answer the base path under which file for user customization of GNU Smalltalk are stored.