From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2003-10-06T15:00:15+09:00
Subject: Re: daz (or others) permissioning problem going on?...


"Kurt Euler" <keuler@portal.com> wrote:

>  [...] When I run this code...
>
>    require 'ftools'
>    TARGET = 'C:/test/rbcopies'  # target directory
>    Dir.mkdir(TARGET) unless File.directory?(TARGET)
>
>    for f in Dir.glob("./**/*")
>      next unless File.file?(f)
>      #
>      # check for exists? / read-only etc.
>      #
>      File.syscopy(f, TARGET)
>    end
>
> .. I get this error:
>
>      test44.rb:3:in `mkdir': No such file or directory - C:/test/rbcopies (Errno::ENOENT)
> from test44.rb:3
>

The example I gave assumed that C:\TEMP exists already.
If 'C:\test' doesn't exist, mkdir won't be able to create sub-directory 'C:\test\rbcopies'.

I'm on Win98, so I can't help with permissions, sorry.


daz