I concur with the wildcards note.

On Oct 4, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:

> I think Randall nailed it with wildcards; that's where it fits.  I  
> suppose one could provide a Windows version of it (/home/user could  
> map to the documents and settings craziness), though I learned the  
> hard way to steer clear of such things on Windows - if I have to use  
> Windows, give me my own directory on c: any day.

Indeed, '~' was a shell notation, so not an OS feature. And in fact, I  
used cygwin on windows (for the 12 years I suffered along in that  
world) and those shells support the tilde (~) and everything you  
expect from the shells. So it would be nice to support it for all  
platforms... or not at all.

If such features are not going to be supported on all platforms, then  
I would rely on environmental variables like HOME (or whatever is  
common across platforms) and simply not use them.

-Cam
PS: I kicked the windows habit... and cannot for the life of me  
remember why I suffered along with it even that long. I'm running a  
mac now, for the last 6 months, and I haven't had a single lock-up or  
forced re-boot yet.


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