From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T06:37:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Path Separator and Windows

On 29/12/05, Bob Showalter <bob_showalter@taylorwhite.com> wrote:
> Justin Johnson wrote:
> > Using ruby 1.8.2 on Windows XP, the path separator used for things like
> > File.join is always / instead of \.  Is there a way to force ruby to use
> > the correct path separator?
> "correct" is debatable, since the Windows API accepts / as a separator.

Sort of. The base Win32 API does accept \ or /. However, the Unicode
Win32API -- which will be used in the future -- does not accept /.
Ruby, however, should continue to support both.

-austin
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