From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2004-12-17T17:11:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Loading configuration files in an OS-agnostic way

Peter Cooper schrieb:
> On 17 Dec 2004, at 07:52, Gavri Savio Fernandez wrote:
> 
>> unusable as is, in Windows, because it assumed that the configuration 
>> file is named .google_key and Win 2000 Professional atleast does not 
>> allow '.' to be the first character of a filename.
> 
> 
> Are you sure? That strikes me as odd, and Windows XP (which is 
> essentially 2000+goodies anyway) is fine with it. Most systems I have 
> encountered which are attempting to be agnostic use a period regardless 
> (or a tilde, as you have).

At least on Win 2000, you can't create such a file in the Windows Explorer, but 
you sure can in Ruby:

   File.open ".google_key", "w" do |out| out.puts "# config" end

Regards,
Pit