From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-10-30T15:20:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] win32-file 0.1.0

> Hi all,
>
> I am happy to announce the release of win32-file
> 0.1.0.  This package provides additional methods for
> the File class specific to the Win32 platform, mostly
> related to file/directory attribute information.

Good work.

> Synopsis
> ========
> require "win32/file"
>
> some_file = "C:\\Documents and
> Settings\\some_user\\fruitylicious.txt"
>
> Win32::File.attributes(some_file) # e.g. ['hidden','archive']

Why not use symbols instead?

> Win32::File.short_path(some_file) # "fruity~1.txt"

*shudder* :)

> [...]

Cheers,
Gavin