Understood - the question was (is?) whether or not Pharo should recognize it 
and act accordingly - I suspect the answer is no.

Bill



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Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Dumb question: ~ vs. /home/user

Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> For the unix gurus among us, what should happen in response to
>  
>    ( FileDirectory on:'~/ExistingDirectory' ) entries?
>  
> It creates a path name of /~ExistingDirectory and then fumbles trying 
> to read it.  Is this something that should be expected to work, or is 
> ~ just a trick of the shell?
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> Bill
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This is a unix notation for user home directory or folder

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