Re: I have a question...

[emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)]

The easiest way to 'solve' this problem is to expand the "~" into the
home directory.  The environment variable "HOME" contains the pathname
of the home directory.  Thus it's pretty trivial to implement an
operation that replaces (all) occurances of "~" in a pathname with the
string value of HOME.  

To be more accurate/precise, the best thing to do is to obtain the
pathname to the home directory from the /etc/passwd file, since the
value of HOME could have been changed by the user.

				dave

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