From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-06-17T21:49:45+09:00
Subject: Re: File.expand_path with files beginnig with ~ (tilde) on Windoze

Grzegorz Chrupala wrote:

>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.
>  
>
What version of Ruby? Here's what I got:

    C:\>irb
    irb(main):001:0> File.expand_path("~/temp")
    ArgumentError: couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding `~/temp'
            from (irb):1:in `expand_path'
            from (irb):1
    irb(main):002:0> VERSION
    => "1.6.8"

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