[Tutor] creating files and writing to them

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Michael P. Reilly wrote:

> Not all systems/users may have their home directories in "/home/".

On MacOS X Server (derived from NeXTtep), it's /Local/Users/username
except, of course, root, who gets /Local/Users/Administrator

So you can't even expect the username to be the same.

Furthermore, you can't necessarily expect to get it out of /etc/passwd
(lookupd is a more portable approach).

In call cases, you can write a file foo to your home directory from
anywhere by opening it as "~/foo"

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