Re: Tilde expansion on Win32

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I noticed that we don't expand tildes in Win32 because of the use of
> tilde in short versions of long file names:
> 
>     char *
>     expand_tilde(char **filename)
>     {
>         if (!filename || !(*filename))
>             return NULL;
>     
>         /* MSDOS uses tilde for short versions of long file names, so skip it. */
>     #ifndef WIN32
>     
>         /* try tilde expansion */
>         if (**filename == '~')
>         {
> 
> However, I thought the tilde was usually used toward the end of the file
> name, not at the beginning.  Is this true?  Should this code be modified?
> 

If you talking about WIn32 ~ they are typically in the middle. Like:

program files === progra~1

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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