From: Graham Wideman <notarealaddress@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T11:35:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows/X-plaiform file path manipulation -- how do you deal with it?

... so to partly answer myself, it looks like the 
at-least-experimentally-working Pathname library is available in the 1.9 
distribution, and indeed does what I want.

Leading to the next question posted...