> '~' is a shell convention.  Our file access functions should
> not prevent accessing file or directiory named '~'.
> Nor should they require some strange quoting (which is
> the case with shell).

That's an odd choice.  I think '~' is part of POSIX standard?
Yes, in IO part, lisp and unix don't get along very well, but
for convenience, we should choose '~' for abbrevation of
home directory.

> In Cygwin (clisp) there's no problem.

So it's also inconsistent.

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