From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-10-31T01:18:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] win32-file 0.1.0

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Sinclair [mailto:gsinclair@soyabean.com.au] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:21 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> 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.

Thanks :)
 
> > 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?

Dunno - didn't think it really mattered.  Does it?

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

:-P

Regards,

Dan