From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2004-10-07T21:34:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Package requests for the prelim. Ruby Production Archive

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:42:02AM +0900, James Britt wrote:
> (Here I'm trying to install the packages into c:/ruby-rpa/ and related 
> subdirectories)
> 
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:181:in `mkdir': Invalid argument - 
> c:/ruby-rpa/c: (Errno::EINVAL)
> 
> Has this been tested on Windows?  Is it not meant for Windows users?

used it for a few months with no problems
whatsoever. why are you trying to use unix style 
paths on windows? i'm a tad confused i must 
admit...

anyways. why not just install in the 
directory it suggests?

cheers,
Alex

p.s: i'm on linux again now so haven't 
     used a rpa-base on windows in the
     last week or so