diff -Nru bash-2.05b/builtins/evalfile.c bash-2.05b.new/builtins/evalfile.c
--- bash-2.05b/builtins/evalfile.c	Thu Feb 21 20:08:52 2002
+++ bash-2.05b.new/builtins/evalfile.c	Sun Mar 23 14:59:23 2003
@@ -208,6 +208,23 @@
   return ((flags & FEVAL_BUILTIN) ? result : 1);
 }
 
+static char *
+config_dir_tilde_expand (s, config_dir)
+     const char *s;
+     const char *config_dir;
+{
+  int old_immed, r;
+  char *ret;
+
+  if (*s == '~' && *(s+1) == '/')
+    {
+      ret = xmalloc(strlen(config_dir) + strlen(s) - 1);
+      sprintf(ret, "%s/%s", config_dir, s+3);
+    }
+  else return bash_tilde_expand(s, 0);
+  return (ret);
+}
+
 int
 maybe_execute_file (fname, force_noninteractive)
      const char *fname;
@@ -215,8 +232,12 @@
 {
   char *filename;
   int result, flags;
-
-  filename = bash_tilde_expand (fname, 0);
+  char *config_dir = getenv("CONFIG_DIR");
+  
+  if (config_dir)
+    filename = config_dir_tilde_expand(fname, config_dir);
+  else
+    filename = bash_tilde_expand (fname, 0);
   flags = FEVAL_ENOENTOK;
   if (force_noninteractive)
     flags |= FEVAL_NONINT;