From: Ron Jeffries Date: 2002-03-19T21:39:34+09:00 Subject: Re: dots in Dir.entries On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:11:32 GMT, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >I agree that is a little annoying to have to filter those >when you do not want them (which is most of the time), but >there are situations where it is important that they are >not filtered out. I would not mind if this was a different >method name, but I do think it needs to be available. Most of the time, most Windows-based Ruby apps filter these alleged filenames. If there's a standard way in Ruby to do this, we'll all use it. If not, we'll all write our own. Which way would the world be better? Ronald E Jeffries http://www.XProgramming.com http://www.objectmentor.com I'm giving the best advice I have. You get to decide whether it's true for you.