Gavin Sinclair
9/20/2003 12:58:00 AM
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, 2:18:35 AM, Sean wrote:
> 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.
I use Windows, and choose to set HOME to D:/home/gavin, so that
Windows and Cygwin can be in agreement. Certain Windows programs will
make use of any %HOME% setting.
Gavin