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To:	Joseph Skinner <joe@earthlight.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: are there any patches which add ~ expansion to rc 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:56:45 EDT."
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Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 1997 17:56:37 -0400
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@finch.cse.psu.edu>

Joseph Skinner <joe@earthlight.co.nz> writes:
| What is the general view of this being part of rc.

Wrong level of abstraction.  Your os should provide a (virtual)
filesystem mounted on "/u" so you can say /u/username in every
context.  Sun's automounter can almost do this right; amd can
probably do better.