File.expand_path and ~ on windows

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I was doing some more research on porting some Perl Win32 modules when I
came across this page:

http://www.roth.net

Roth consulting has several Win32 modules that are NOT on CPAN. One of the
things they also have is a ~home ISAPI filter. You can read about it here:

http://www.roth.net/ISAPI/Home/

Anyway, it’s another option to consider.

Regards,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Berger, Daniel [mailto:djberge@qwest.com]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:45 AM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: File.expand_path and ~ on windows

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean O’Dell [mailto:sean@cSePlsoAfMt.com[REMOVE_THE_SPAM]]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:19 AM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
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.