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+# tilde
+Tilde pathname expander for SBCL
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+Once upon a time, SBCL didn't understand "~" in pathname namestrings to mean the home directory. The "tilde" project patched it in. It hasn't been needed for many years, though, so it's here only as a historical artifact.