Re: [1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000124]: tilde expansion and doubleslash file names

[Geoff Clare <gwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote:
>
> The intention is that ~ is shorthand for "$HOME".  Using ~/something
> should always behave exactly the same as "$HOME"/something.

In case it wasn't clear - by "something" I meant any string,
including strings that begin with one or more slashes.

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Geoff Clare <g.clare@opengroup.org>
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