From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-05-26T01:08:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting '\' to be used as the separator in Dir.getwd -- how to?

On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 12:51 AM, Richard wrote:

> I'm running Ruby 1.6.8 over Win2000SP3.  Dir.getwd returns the current
> directory with forward slash as the separator.  I tried setting
> SEPARATOR = "\\" at the beginning of the script, to no avail.  Is
> there a way to get the correct form returned, or do I have to do
> pattern substitution?

I don't have Windows, so I can't test this, but I think this can be 
handled by the Shell class.

require 'shell'

Shell.new.pwd

The Shell class (at $/lib/ruby/1.6.8/shell.rb) also has a method to set 
the default record separator.