From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-01-02T10:34:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30008] Re: How to check free diskspace?

At Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:05:13 +0900,
ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) 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.

Not only Windows, DOS also have accepted '/' as directory
separator.  Just shells (command.com/cmd.exe/explorer) reject
it.

-- 
Nobu Nakada