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From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: environment fetching and tilde expansion software
Message-ID: <43@ftms.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 91 22:35:55 GMT
References: <42@ftms.UUCP>
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Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout
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In article <42@ftms.UUCP> brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
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<The other function, which is tied to the previous one, is to be able to expand
<a path like $(PROGHOME)/bin.

Oh, for this one I understand that one can look for the $ and then get the
name after it and to a getenv on the word.  But, if this were part of a general
function that did both the ~ and $ expansions, it would make it a little easier.
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