From: Tom Felker <tcfelker@...>
Date: 2003-09-19T11:36:28+09:00
Subject: Re: File.expand_path and ~ on windows

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:16:00 +0100, Alan Davies wrote:

>  From the pickaxe book...
> 
>  > File.expand_path( fileName [, aDirString ] ) -> fileName
>    <snip>
>  > The given pathname may start with a ``~'', which expands to the
>  > process owner's home directory (the environment variable HOME must be
>  > set correctly). "~ user" expands to the named user's home directory"
> 
> This isn't relevant on windows.  Thus:

Wouldn't it make more sense to expand it to My Documents (C:\Documents and
Settings\Username\My Documents on WinXP)?  I suppose it would be
worthwhile to be able to disable it, though.

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