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[io grant] Expand docs for $*HOME and $*TMPDIR
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| string and the numeric group id if treated as a number.
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$*HOME | An L<IO::Path> object representing the "home directory"
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| of the user that is running the program. If the
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| "home directory" cannot be determined it will be L<Any>
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| of the user that is running the program. Uses
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| C«%*ENV<HOME>» if set. On Windows, uses
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| C«%*ENV<HOMEDRIVE> ~ %*ENV<HOMEPATH>». If the
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| home directory cannot be determined, it will be L<Any>
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$*SPEC | The appropriate L<IO::Spec> sub-class for the platform that
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| the program is running on.
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$*TMPDIR | An L<IO::Path> object representing the "system temporary directory"
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$*TMPDIR | An L<IO::Path> object representing the "system temporary directory" as determined by L«C<.tmpdir IO::Spec::* method|/routine/tmpdir»
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$*TOLERANCE | Used by the C<=~=> operator, and any operations that depend on it, to
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| decide if two values are approximately equal. Defaults to 1e-15.

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