| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Zach Irmen <zirmen(at)shaw(dot)ca>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql \i handling ~ in specified file name |
| Date: | 2004-01-08 18:02:08 |
| Message-ID: | 3FFD9B20.2070701@commandprompt.com |
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>As I remember, MSDOS uses the "~" to specify short versions of long file
>names.
>
I is not just msdos, it is cmd.exe which exists on (to my knowledge) all
versions of windows. For example:
Program Files == progra~1
> I think that is enough for us to say that we are best leaving
>'~' expansion only for Unix. We already dump COPY in a native Win32
>format, so it seems we should handle special characters in a similar
>native way.
>
>I will add a comment to this affect in the source code.
>
>
>
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