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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