docs/42762: ppp.8 has no description of $env and ~user expansion in ppp.conf

Peter Pentchev roam at ringlet.net
Thu Dec 16 17:00:42 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/42762; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
To: Brian Somers <brian at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: AIDA Shinra <aida-s at jcom.home.ne.jp>, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/42762: ppp.8 has no description of $env and ~user expansion in ppp.conf
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:59:56 +0200

 On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:50:56PM +0000, Brian Somers wrote:
 > Oops, lost in my inbox :(  Sorry.
 > 
 > I guess there are three things to be described here.
 > 
 > $var - as described
 > ~ - as described
 > ~user - the home directory of ``user''.
 > 
 > Please feel free to commit when you can - after adding the last bit...
 
 Thanks, I just committed a slightly reworded version which also describes
 the special meaning of ~ (it was ~ that was missed, not ~user).
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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