From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T14:55:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Platform Independence Programming

On 7/11/06, Minkoo Seo <minkoo.seo@gmail.com> wrote:
> programs. That being the case, how can I rewrite the following program
> in platform independent way?
>
> print "Hello\r\n"

puts "Hello"

> Dir["/tmp/*"]

# note your code works fine under windows assuming you have a /tmp directory
tmp_path = ENV['TEMP'] || ENV['TMP'] || File.join('','tmp')
Dir[File.join(tmp_path,'*')]

> And I also wonder whether there's another problem related to platform
> independence.

Plenty :-), fork/process handling, services / daemons, drive
letters/mount points, IPC/pipes, etc. It really depends upon your
needs/goals many things are pretty easy, some are very difficult you
need to be more specific.

Good luck
pth