# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 982927628 0
# Node ID cf1b9eaadeafae6c77a2827f10db8af0f7ed7525
# Parent  63c47fc9df21a271c49e21995bac7daaf0b2ae7c
(File Names): Add a note about ~/ peculiarities on DOS/Windows.

diff -r 63c47fc9df21 -r cf1b9eaadeaf man/files.texi
--- a/man/files.texi	Fri Feb 23 11:23:10 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/files.texi	Fri Feb 23 11:27:08 2001 +0000
@@ -112,7 +112,10 @@
 @cindex home directory shorthand
   You can use the @file{~/} in a file name to mean your home directory,
 or @file{~@var{user-id}/} to mean the home directory of a user whose
-login name is @code{user-id}.
+login name is @code{user-id}.  (On DOS and Windows systems, where a user
+doesn't have a home directory, Emacs substitutes @file{~/} with the
+value of the environment variable @code{HOME}; see @ref{General
+Variables}.)
 
   To access a file with @samp{$} in its name, type @samp{$$}.  This pair
 is converted to a single @samp{$} at the same time as variable