Eduardo, From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <edua...@kalinowski.com.br> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:32:35 -0300 > Probably because ~ is not a magical token in the Linux kernel. Firefox > is just trying to open a file "/~/Category2.html", a file in a > directory literally called "~" under root. > > Several programs (notably the shell) take "~" to mean the user's home > directly, and convert that to the actual file path before opening it.
I hadn't thought about that properly. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca Shop pages http://carnot.yi.org/ accessible as long as the old drives survive. Personal pages http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171057031.62779.47933@cantor.invalid
