From: "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...[REMOVE_THE_SPAM]>
Date: 2003-09-20T01:18:35+09:00
Subject: Re: File.expand_path and ~ on windows

Austin Ziegler wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:36:28 +0900, Tom Felker wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> No. ~ has no meaning to Windows shells. There are times when I wish that it 
> didn't to Unix shells. After all, that's what ${HOME} is for.

This is true; but I think for portability reasons, since COMMAND.COM 
isn't exactly what I would call a culture of shell idioms, ~ and ${HOME} 
(%HOME%) should be considered synonymous.  If not ~, then at least 
${HOME} ought to point to C:\Documents and Settings\UserName I think.

	Sean O'Dell