From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-08-26T10:34:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Moving all files in a folder to another hard drive

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 01:07 +0900, Dave Bass wrote:
> Presumably you're using the NTFS filesystem? There's some information on 
> it here:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
> 
> Since the filesystem has a closed specification (thank you Microsoft), 
> it may be that the Ruby developers have been unable to work out exactly 
> how it works with filenames that contain Unicode characters.

Yes ... my advice is to "shell out" to Windows or call native C
libraries, rather than trying to "reverse engineer" NTFS.
> 
> 
> 
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