[Gambas-user] ~ doesn't seem to work.

Rob sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...
Fri Aug 20 22:15:54 CEST 2004


On Friday 20 August 2004 15:46, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> directory, but when I told Gambas that I wanted to "Open
> "~/.TODO_preferences" FOR CREATE AS #myFile" it said that the
> file didn't exist, However, when I changed ~ to /home/michael
> it worked fine.  Is there a workaround for what I'm trying to

"~" is a shell-specific thing, not implemented at the filesystem 
level.  Try this:

System.Home &/ ".TODO_preferences"

Rob





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