From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-08-10T04:21:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Changes to the semantics of basename/dirname?


"Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:9e7db91104080907595ed3fe0b@mail.gmail.com...
> There are some issues with the way that File.basename and
> File.dirname work, at least on Windows. I also have an issue with
> File.expand_path related to some of the issues of File.basename and
> File.dirname. This may be present in more than just these, but these
> are what I've seen over the past few weeks.
>
> The first problem is that basename, dirname, and expand_path convert
> \\ to /. This shouldn't be problematic in the general case (where
> the path is then used in a Ruby command), but it would be useful to
> indicate that conversion should not be done.

What Ruby are you using?  AFAIK windows compiled Ruby handles that according
to Win conventions.  Cygwin ruby handles it according to *nix style.  But
then there is cygpath...

Regards

    robert