Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: '~' in file names Message-ID: <1991Mar6.071140.1191@robobar.co.uk> Date: 6 Mar 91 07:11:40 GMT References: <1991Mar3.100859.4383@pronto.mh.nl> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 14 meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: > In article <1991Mar3.100859.4383@pronto.mh.nl> jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes: > | Long ago, we have adopted the habit of having a common place where all > | user directories can be found, using symlinks. ... > | This solves this problem. > > Actually no, it does not solve the problem if you have System V.3 > systems which do not support symlinks. Note the similarity to perl in the current timeframe: "Fixed in Release 4". :-) -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)