Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!squirrel!pronto!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: '~' in file names Message-ID: <1991Mar3.100859.4383@pronto.mh.nl> Date: 3 Mar 91 10:08:59 GMT References: <1991Feb28.151019.22944@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <30953@shamash.cdc.com> <1991Mar1.000018.15048@frey.newcastle.edu.au> Sender: jv@pronto.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Reply-To: Johan Vromans Organization: Multihouse Automation, the Netherlands Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: meissner@osf.org's message of 1 Mar 91 23:32:19 GMT In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: > But ~otheruser/foo does not work. I don't think it's unreasonable > that perl do the ~ translation for all names in file contexts..... Long ago, we have adopted the habit of having a common place where all user directories can be found, using symlinks. "/users/foo" will allways point to the real (actual, current) login directory for foo. This solves this problem. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62911/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------