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From: pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov (Charlie Towne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: jot
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.151936.14748@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Sep 90 15:19:36 GMT
References: <9009191313.aa06840@VGR.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov (Charlie Towne)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
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In article <9009191313.aa06840@VGR.BRL.MIL> SOFPJF@VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) writes:

>
>2) Why oh why can't I specify a full path to a file in that notifier?
>   No matter what I say (eg ~/foo) I get "Save file failed, unable to
>   write file" - with no further notification.  Why is it unable?
>

The problem, I think, is really that ~ (and $HOME) aren't interpreted as
the name of your home directory.  You *can* use a full path name, I do it
fairly often.  The "." and ".." notations do work.

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