From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-03-14T10:34:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Some potential RCRs

On 3/13/02 7:03 AM, "Massimiliano Mirra" <list@chromatic-harp.com> wrote:

> Easier than all would be a call to a Dir.chparent.  What I'm concerned
> about is, is Dir.chdir('..') going to work on Windows, Mac OS X and
> all the platform Ruby runs on?

I just tried chdir .. from tcsh on MacOSX and from the DOS prompt on Win98
(running on Virtual PC) and it did the right thing on both systems.

Nevertheless, I agree with Massimiliano's larger point  about the file
management routines being too low level and shell like.

I dislike Dir.chparent though. It sounds to me like it means take this
branch of the file tree and move it under a different parent, i.e. drag this
folder somewhere. How about Dir.parent
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