From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-09-12T10:58:41+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyInline 1.0.4 Released! (fwd)

Hi,

At Thu, 12 Sep 2002 02:37:26 +0900,
Ryan Davis wrote:
> Well... I don't have a windoze box to test out on at all, so you'll
> have to be my eyes and ears on this. The first is that I'm kinda
> expecting ruby to deal w/ unix file paths. I don't know if it does or
> what recourse I have available to me if it doesn't. The second is that
> /tmp might not even exist on windoze, I have no idea, so what is the
> alternative. This second point is kinda moot, as I really need to
> switch it to the user's home directory. This would involve using the
> HOME environment variable on POSIX systems. Is that true for MS
> products? I was planning on using HOME/.ruby_inline. Does that even
> make sense in your world? Please advise.

Win2k(=NT5.0) defines HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH but not HOME, and
TEMP to each users own temporary directories.  I can't remind
whether NT4.0 set TEMP in that manner or set to system wide
directory.  I don't know about WinXP(=NT5.1) at all.

Win9x doesn't set them automatically unless set in autoexec.bat
file.

And, dotted files are not hidden under Windows.

But totally, I don't guess it's so useful under Windows, many
Windows users don't have compilers.

-- 
Nobu Nakada