Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: expand(3) arrives Message-ID: <5732@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 17:08:34 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5732 Posted: Tue Jun 25 17:08:34 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 17:08:34 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 8 New utility function: expand(3) expands a filename the same way the shell does (in fact, it invokes the shell for anything non-trivial). This will be retrofitted into the editors at some point, but this may happen too quickly, since expand() uses stdio and this is incompatible with the (very old) innards of the editors. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry