Re: Tilde expansion on Win32

Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] 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 ~/.

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