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: "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Scilab\<Scilab-Version>" with %USERPROFILE% similar to "C:\Documents and Settings\<User>".

On Windows Vista, 7 and 8: "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Scilab\<Scilab-Version>" with %USERPROFILE% similar to "C:\Users\<User>".

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

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

<User> is your current login name

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

The default path assigned to `SCIHOME` may be replaced with a given path specified with the `-scihome` option when launching Scilab.

## Examples

    disp(SCIHOME);
    isdir(SCIHOME)

## See also

- SCI
- TMPDIR
- Scilab startup