contains the path to preferences, history files of your Scilab session.
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.
`disp`_(SCIHOME);
`isdir`_(SCIHOME)