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  • Re: Option-f in folder name

    From slavins@slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost (Simon Slavin) to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, July 24, 2003 23:33:22
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    In article <bfj1kk$qqj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>, anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel) wrote:

    The tilde "~" is the highest printable ASCII character (126).

    Don't use tildes in filenames under OS X. If the filename ever
    gets handled as a URL there's a chance that the tilde will be
    interpreted as referring to your home directory.


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  • From anno4000@anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel) to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 25, 2003 07:12:08
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    Simon Slavin <slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote in comp.sys.mac.system:
    In article <bfj1kk$qqj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>, anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel) wrote:

    The tilde "~" is the highest printable ASCII character (126).

    Don't use tildes in filenames under OS X. If the filename ever
    gets handled as a URL there's a chance that the tilde will be
    interpreted as referring to your home directory.

    More importantly, some shells (those with csh ancestry) will interpret
    "~xyz" as the home directory of user "xyz". A single tilde will be
    the home directory of the user running the process. A tilde in the
    middle of a string is safe, but probably also better avoided.

    In a web context, things can be configured so that "~xyz" can point
    to anything at all, not necessarily a user's home directory. At least
    under apache it can.

    Anno
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