[olug] rpm Howto

[nate]

I am looking at a HOWTO 
[http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/howtos/mdk-rpm/preliminary.html]
which is preliminary tasks.  I have tried to follow the directory building 
task mentioned in the [ 3.1. Create required folders. ] instruction.
When I type  ~/rpm/BUILD I get the prompt again so it must have made a 
folder/directory somewhere but I cannot find it looking in the home directory 
which I'm in when I execute the command?  What can you tell me about this and 
also what is the  ~  before the /rpm/BUILD   . 


Thanks,
Nate