From: grzegorz@... (Grzegorz Chrupala)
Date: 2003-06-17T19:03:10+09:00
Subject: File.expand_path with files beginnig with ~ (tilde) on Windoze

Hi,
I have noticed the following Ruby-on-Windoze gotcha:

File.expand_path("~$some_m$word_tmp_file", ".")

returns just the filename, no expansion is done. I guess this has
something to do with Unix using names starting with "~" for home
directories.
I wonder whether this could/should be fixed.

Cheers,
Grzegorz