From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T12:00:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does File.join use "/" on Windows?

Wang Dong wrote:
> On 3埖30晩, 貧怜9扮21蛍, "Bret Pettichord" <bpettich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just had to work on some code that ran into trouble, because Ruby
>> uses "/" to separate folders, but the path was being passed to a
>> separate command (using system) that expected Window's paths to use
>> "\".
>>
>> C:\Users\bret>irb
>> irb(main):001:0> File.join "foo", "bar"
>> => "foo/bar"
>> irb(main):002:0>
>>
>> I told my collegues that instead of using File.join, they should just
>> use + "\\" +
>> But this got me to wondering what the point of File.join was if you
>> couldn't trust it to construct paths correctly (unless you were sure
>> that the path was only going to be used by other ruby commands).
>>
>> Is there a rationale? Is there a different library that i should be
>> using instead?
>>
>> bret
> 
> Windows NT support '/' but not win98 or DOS.

No, Windows and DOS have always supported '/'. But some programs (in
particular, COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE) have a problem because of an
ancient need to be compatible with DOS 1.0.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
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