| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| 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 18:02:33 |
| Message-ID: | 200401081802.i08I2XJ11590@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> >
> >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
Yes, I meant it is a hold-over from dealing with MS-DOS style 8.3 file
names.
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