From: Matthew Bloch <mattbee@...>
Date: 2002-04-02T08:51:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir[] on Windows w/ long filenames

Morris, Chris wrote:

> Ruby 1.6.6
> 
> Dir[] doesn't appear to work if any directories have a space in their
> name:
[snip]

I fired up my newsreader to post almost exactly the same bug; or something 
similar.  I'd been testing a Ruby-based game on Win98 which uses Tk for 
part of its front-end.  I got an exception thrown when it was stored in 
c:\Windows\Desktop\trivia game but seemed fine when run from c:\trivia-swp 
-- this was trying to find tcltklib.dll.  The text of the exception claimed 
that it had looked in a particular directory where the DLL actually was.  
It ran fine from either location on a Windows 2000 machine.  Hang on, I'll 
try again now and be a bit more specific...

-- 
Matthew