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[Charlie Towne]

In article <9009191313.aa06840 at VGR.BRL.MIL> SOFPJF at VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) writes:

>
>2) Why oh why can't I specify a full path to a file in that notifier?
>   No matter what I say (eg ~/foo) I get "Save file failed, unable to
>   write file" - with no further notification.  Why is it unable?
>

The problem, I think, is really that ~ (and $HOME) aren't interpreted as
the name of your home directory.  You *can* use a full path name, I do it
fairly often.  The "." and ".." notations do work.

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