From: Mark Hahn <mchahn@...>
Date: 2002-01-02T10:32:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30006] Re: How to check free diskspace?


> I think they might accept '/' in place of '\' anyway.

Windows does not allow this since they use / for options.  The only place
I've ever seen / allowed in windows is in nmake.

You'll have to ask Matz to be sure, but it seems clear to me that Matz is
handling it, just as Java does.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Tomson [mailto:ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 5:05 PM
To: ruby-talk ML; undisclosed-recipients:
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