From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Date: 2007-03-04T06:41:13+09:00
Subject: Re: using Scite to change directory

"Phrogz" <gavin@refinery.com> writes:

> [ ... ]
>
> Or
> Dir.chdir( "C:/Documents and Settings/Jean/Bureau" )
>
> Even though Windows normally uses a backslash for directory path
> separator, Ruby allows the forward slash in (almost?) all cases.

Windows actually allows it, as well.  Forward slash been accepted all
the way back to the days of MS-DOS, except for arguments on the command
line of varios MS-DOS and Windows utilities.  That's because the forward
slash is used there as a command-line option indicator.  But from within
programs, pathnames in Windows and MS-DOS allow forward or backward
slashes, interchangeably.


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 God bless you.