From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-08-10T04:38:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Changes to the semantics of basename/dirname?

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 04:21:17 +0900, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
> "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:9e7db91104080907595ed3fe0b@mail.gmail.com...
> > 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...

irb(main):003:0> [RUBY_PLATFORM, RUBY_VERSION, RUBY_RELEASE_DATE].join(" ")
=> "i386-mswin32 1.8.2 2004-07-29"

Ruby converts \ to / and doesn't handle UNC names well at all.

-austin
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