From: "U.Nakamura" <usa@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T14:18:00+09:00
Subject: Re: File.lib bug?

Hello,

In message "Re: File.lib bug?"
    on Sep.24,2002 13:49:36, <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> wrote:
| At Tue, 24 Sep 2002 05:19:14 +0900,
| Overnight wrote:
| > Using File.join('c:','windows') will work of course, but under Windows I 
| > never refer to the root of a disk as C:, D:, etc, always as C:\, D:\. 
| > This is an habit imposed from the shell, which interprets 'C:' (alone, 
| > with no slash) as "current working dir of disk C". So 'C:myfile' is the 
| > same as 'C:\myfile' only if the working dir of C: is '\'... 
| 
| Essentially, the specification about drive letter is too
| ambiguous.  In ruby-dev ML, we had a discussion about the
| behavior of File.split, File.join and so on, but I don't
| remember the detail now.

There is summary of the discussion:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/man-1.6/?cmd=view;name=DOSISH+%C2%D0%B1%FE

Sorry, this summary is Japanese.
But I hope you can read code sample...

Samples with `ruby-list' and `ruby-dev' are suggestion.
Other samples are already implemented.

Regards.
--
U.Nakamura <usa@osb.att.ne.jp>