faq: why doesn't tilde expansion work in shell scripts in cygwin?

[Dan Kegel]

Say, it says in 
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_
02_06_01
and
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/chap2.html#tag_001_006_001
that tilde expansion is required.  Yet ash claims it is posix compliant.
Hrm.  Somebody's wrong somewhere... maybe ash is only compliant to
an outdated posix version?
- Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A Chase
To: Dan Kegel; 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
Sent: 24.08.2002 19:49
Subject: Re: faq: why doesn't tilde expansion work in shell scripts in
cygwin?

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:01:36 -0700 Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com> wrote:

> In all my shell scripts, I'm having to replace ~ with $HOME to
> get them to work under Cygwin.  Seems a bit odd.  Am I doing
> something wrong?  This is with a fairly fresh installation
> of Cygwin on Win2K.

Which shell is being invoked for the scripts?  If it is /bin/sh, ash
doesn't do tilde expansion.
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