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From: owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Statistics on 15.11.2015.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:29:15 +0000 (UTC)
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Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/15, 4:37 PM, in article n2gdj7$rfs$1@dont-email.me, "Slimer"
> <.m@nsn.s> wrote:
> 
...
> They are insane. And they
> cannot answer the most simple of questions, such as what the tilde generally
> means in a path (hint, the user's home folder... though you can also have it
> as a part of file or folder name if you want!)
> 

Does it also amaze you that your home directory could be /home/snit,
yet you could still have a file "home/snit" somewhere else on your
system?  Does it amaze you that "." or ".." can be part of a file
or directory name?