>You wrote:
>
>> >Can anybody think of a reason why it should behave this way?
>>
>> Maybe because the docs says "If you pass a Shell path, it must be an=
>>  absolute path. If not, an UnsupportedFormatException will result"?
>
>Well, maybe, except that a path starting with "~" IS an absolute path, is it
>not?  It's certainly not relative to whatever my current working directory
>happens to be...

AFAIU it's not an absolute path, which *always* starts with a "/" (or "\").

~/ is just a macro, expanded by the shell (not all shells, if I remember 
correctly).
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