John Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it's the shell that does the interpretation
> If I was writing a C program I would probably so something along the lines of:
> strcat( getenv("HOME"), ".somefunkyfile" ); // psudo C code
Or you can wordexp(3) which exists on all POSIX systems.
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