ash does not understand '~'

[Andrew DeFaria]

Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:

>>I'm not that concerned about Amiga OS.
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> I'm not surprised.
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>Did you even read what I've left unsnipped above, 
>
I glanced at it. Even went on line and googled around for Amiga OS a 
little. Too much info too little time. As I said I'm not that concerned 
about Amiga OS that much. Ancient OSes are of little interest to me 
except as historical reading...

>which was my main point. The Amiga references was given as an _example_ of an OS where bash et al are _HARD_ to port, others may well exists, this was the one *I* knew about.
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>>Honestly I don't know much about it. Is it even Unix like?
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>More so than D.O.S. (i.e. cmd/command) is. 
>
Who ever said that DOS was "unix like"!?! Hell we aren't discussing 
whether or not "~" is understood by DOS (cmd/command)!?!

>Given the contents of geekgadgets the "unix-likeness" is or could be at the same level as cygwin
>provides - in some areas better, others lesser. 
>
Then it should therefore sport a modern shell that at least understands 
"~", no?

>('could be' as the development has "stopped")
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Sorta like Latin, eh?

>Well - whatever, this os OT. :-] lets stop it.
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But it's fun! :-)

I know, I know, old habits die hard and that is essentially my point. I 
remember one time complaining about HP-UX not recognizing the backspace 
key when logging into a tty. Old timers there quickly told me that del = 
backspace which, to me at the time, was totally weird. Why put a key on 
a keyboard labelled backspace which does not do backspace?!? Why have 
del do a backspace instead?

One old timer piped up "Well in the old days sonny! [embellishing here a 
little bit] we only had teletypes and if you looked at a the keys there 
the DEL key was a lot easier to hit than the backspace key" to which I 
gave a puzzled grin and replied "Who's using teletypes anymore?".

Another old timer remarked that the user could actually want a backspace 
in their password to which I could think of two responses: 1) "What if 
they wanted DEL?" and 2) "If they are wierd enough to want a backspace 
in their password then they should have to escape it!".

OK, I had my quota of fun for this Friday. See y'all next week! :-)
-- 
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.



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