From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2002-12-03T00:17:40+09:00
Subject: Re: root directory

Hello,

    For information, the latest functions I sent here to get the parent 
dir and the root dir using File.split don't work under windows. What's 
more, File::SEPARATOR is here set to "/" under windows!
(I tried with ruby 1.67-4 and 1.67-7 downloaded from 
http://rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net/).

irb(main):005:0> dirUp("c:\\")
"."
irb(main):006:0> dirUp("c:\\test")
"."
irb(main):011:0> dirUp("\\\\regy\\share\\test")
"."
irb(main):012:0> dirUp("\\\\regy\\share\\test\\aa")
"."
irb(main):013:0> dirUp("\\\\regy\\share\\test\\aa\\fdfhdkfdh")
"."
irb(main):014:0> File::SEPARATOR
"/"

emmanuel

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