find-file and filename containing '~'

[Heinz Rommerskirchen]

After a download with wget I got the file
~/tmp/itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002654.html on my
hard disk. Trying to open this with find-file I didn't succeed because
of the '~' in the middle of the name. No way of escaping I cold think
of worked. I tried escaping with \ and C-Q, quoting with ' and " and,
as described in the info-file, /: in front of the whole filename and
inserted in the filename in front of the offending ~myl. Only by using
dired I could get at the file.

emacs -q --no-site-file didn't help either.

Is this my stupidity, a bug/missing feature in emacs, or a missing
description in the info file?

This is with 
"GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-03-28 on buffy",
running under "Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4)"


-- 
Regards

Heinz