From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-02T10:05:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30003] Re: How to check free diskspace?

In article <CEENJIKJHPPGICBNAFMIKEJJDDAA.mchahn@facelink.com>,
Mark Hahn <mchahn@facelink.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, but I wonder, is this just something that cygwin is doing for us and
>when we start distributing Ruby binaries compiled with MSVC++ will we lose
>this feature?
>
>This worked on ruby 1.6.5 compiled in an msvc project:
>
>p File.new('c:/autoexec.bat').atime
> # => Fri Jun 08 15:26:16 GMT-8:00 2001
>

Are you running on WinNT|Win2k?  I think they might accept '/' in place 
of '\' anyway.  Don't know about XP.  Maybe it won't work on 
Win[95|98|ME], but it would be interesting to test it.

Phil