>>>>> "R" == Robert Thornton <Rthornton / demandsolutions.com> writes:

R> require 'ftools'
R> IO.foreach("dswFileList.txt") {|line| File.copy("line", "..\line") }

 Write it like this

   require 'ftools'
   IO.foreach("dswFileList.txt") do |line| 
      line.chomp!    # remove the \n at the end of line
      File.copy(line, "..")
   end


Guy Decoux