expanding ~'s in a directory name.

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From: Ashley Roll
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:26

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I have a program that I'm writing in C in the UNIX environment and I have come
to a part where I need to get a directory name that the program will change 
into. 

My problem is how do I expand ~'s. I want to expand then the way that csh does.

Has anyone written or got code that will do this that I can use? Or is there
a library function that will do this.

Thanks in advance...

Cheers,
Ashley Roll.


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