Wine FAQ edits

Albert Lee trisk at forkgnu.org
Sat Feb 5 20:49:30 CST 2011


On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Gert van den Berg <wine-devel at mohag.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 18:17, Albert Lee <trisk at forkgnu.org> wrote:
>> The instructions were intended to give some context for users who
>> might not be familiar with the ~ expansion.
>
> Using {$HOME} would be more portable. The Bourne shell (/bin/sh) on
> Solaris (9/10 - OpenSolaris defaulted to ksh) doesn't support ~
> (although csh, zsh, bash, tcsh, ksh and just about all the other
> bundled shells does, it sh is the default shell)
>

Anyone using the original Bourne sh *interactively* is in for a world
of pain anyway (speaking as someone who often had to before the ksh93
replacement). I think relying on tilde expansion can can be considered
good practice for the interactive use case.

-Albert



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