From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cegelecproj.co.uk ([159.245.72.6]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24656>; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:53:55 -0400 Received: from vampire.cegelecproj.co.uk (cerberus.cegelecproj.co.uk) by cegelecproj.co.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04877; Fri, 19 Sep 97 08:51:42 BST Received: by vampire.cegelecproj.co.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA09932; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:51:22 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 03:51:22 -0400 From: Steve_Kilbane@cegelecproj.co.uk Message-Id: <199709190751.IAA09932@vampire.cegelecproj.co.uk> X-Planation: X-Faces images can be viewed with the XFaces program To: jeremy@softway.com.au Subject: Re: are there any patches which add ~ expansion to rc Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu X-Face: Iqsa(US9p?)Y^W+6Ff[Z]rM"uFE) lFDjag1e]\/#2 > While I agree that /u is an elegant approach to dealing with the ~user > problem, the most common use of ~ is when referring to one's own > home directory, which /u doesn't help with. True, but then, the problem lies in the ~ semantics, which aren't great. Just as /u/foo can point to user foo's directory, /me (or /m) can point to the current user's. Naturally, this needs special handling in UNIX (as in /proc, /fd), and can be put in $home/lib/profile in Plan 9. What's really annoying is that this is one of the few things that DOS can handle, and plain ol' UNIX can't.