From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2002-01-27T23:54:11+09:00
Subject: Dir[] and File.stat(str).directory? on Win98

Hi all,

on my Win98 box I find the following behaviour:

Say there's a drive C: with directories and files on it.

Now with any of "C:", "C:\\", "C:/"

File.stat(str).directory?

result in true.

But

Dir[] with these arguments behaves differently (or so I think - 
correct me if I'm wrong):

For example:

Dir["C:\\*.txt"]      # result: Array of size 0: []

but

Dir["C:/*.txt"]       # result: Array containing file names


Now that seems to be kind of inconststent to me. "File.stat" works 
as I think it should. But "Dir[]" only works with unixish file names,
not with the dosish backslashes...

Is this intended behaviour? Can I somehow set File::SEPARATOR to 
something different from /? Would that help anyway?

As far as I see I could work around this by redefining Dir[] so that 
it gsubs any \es into /es and then calls the original Dir[]...

But how would I 'alias' a class method correctly?


Any help out there?

Stephan