Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: '~' in file names Message-ID: Date: 4 Mar 91 23:17:27 GMT References: <1991Feb28.151019.22944@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <30953@shamash.cdc.com> <1991Mar1.000018.15048@frey.newcastle.edu.au> <1991Mar3.100859.4383@pronto.mh.nl> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 21 In-reply-to: jv@mh.nl's message of 3 Mar 91 10:08:59 GMT In article <1991Mar3.100859.4383@pronto.mh.nl> jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes: | | 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. Actually no, it does not solve the problem if you have System V.3 systems which do not support symlinks. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?