File::Separator on win32

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Hello Folks,

on my win32 machine, File::Separator returns / instead of a \.
this confuses the system so that it cant find the files i need.
is there a way round? is this a bug or wanted behaviour?

greets

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Michael Siebert wrote:

Hello Folks,

on my win32 machine, File::Separator returns / instead of a \.
this confuses the system so that it cant find the files i need.
is there a way round? is this a bug or wanted behaviour?

It shouldn't be a problem - Windows uses / and \ pretty much interchangeably for most things. What's the code that's giving you problems?

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FileUtils::cp says ENOENT and thats not good. the path is exactly right but
with /'es

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2006/7/24, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org>:

Michael Siebert wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> on my win32 machine, File::Separator returns / instead of a \.
> this confuses the system so that it cant find the files i need.
> is there a way round? is this a bug or wanted behaviour?
>
It shouldn't be a problem - Windows uses / and \ pretty much
interchangeably for most things. What's the code that's giving you
problems?

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Alex

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Michael Siebert <info@siebert-wd.de>

www.stellar-legends.de - Weltraum-Browsergame im Alpha-Stadium

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Michael Siebert wrote:

FileUtils::cp says ENOENT and thats not good. the path is exactly right
but
with /'es

problems?

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Alex

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Michael Siebert <info@siebert-wd.de>

www.stellar-legends.de - Weltraum-Browsergame im Alpha-Stadium

`md #{File.join("c:","foo")}` fails as well. STDERR contains 'The
syntax of the command is incorrect'.

In other languages, like Java, the path separator constant/method is
used to abstract the knowledge of which operating system is in play.
Can it not be so in Ruby?

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2006/7/24, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org>:

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