On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, David Egan Evans wrote:
> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:20:51 -0700 (MST)
> From: David Egan Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jim Knoble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: blackbox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: bbsession script v0.02
>
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Jim Knoble wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:59:44 -0500
> > From: Jim Knoble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: blackbox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: bbsession script v0.02
> >
> > Circa 2002-Feb-26 17:14:27 -0500 dixit Jan Schaumann:
> >
> > : Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > : > yep '~' is a GNU ism (-:
> > :
> > : It is?
> >
> > No, it isn't. It first appeared in the C-shell, and soon after that in
> > the Korn shell. Subsequent shells (including GNU Bash) got it from one
> > of those two places.
> >
> > I have no idea if "~" is actually specified in the POSIX shell (IEEE
> > 1003.2) or subsequent standards, such as SUSv3, because IEEE and the
> > Open Group seem to charge money for the standards, which i can't afford
> > to pay.
> >
> > : So "~" is not functional in the original Bourne Shell?
> >
> > No. "${HOME}" is pretty much functional everywhere, though.
> >
> > --
> > jim knoble | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/
> >
>
> "Tilde Expansion" is part of the ieee 1003.1-2001 posix standard that was
> just released a few weeks ago by the Open Group and IEEE, as well as the
> Unix98 and Unix95 standards (ieee 1003.1-1990). This encorporates Unix
> specs 1, 2 and 3, so it has been a standard for over ten years.
>
> As we have been talking about the use of ksh88 with Solaris as the default
> shell, that was written before the posix 1003.1-1990 standard was
> released.
>
> David
>
Just to clarify one mistake I made. Tilde expansion is part of the
1003.2-2001/1990 specification, not the 1003.1 base specification.
David
