Dave Page wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian > > Sent: 10 June 2005 15:31 > > To: PostgreSQL-development > > Subject: [HACKERS] Tilde expansion on Win32 > > > > 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? > > Yes, it's true - long filenames may be shortened to something like > > Long filename.document -> longfi~1.doc > > To munge them into 8.3 format. Without looking at the code I assume that > it is expanding ~dpage into /home/dpage or whatever? If so, I'd be > inclined to leave it - tilde isn't used like that on Windows.
OK, you d'man. I will leave it. I know we can't support ~user/ on Win32, but I thought maybe we should support ~/. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
