Austin Ziegler wrote: > On 7/7/06, transfire / gmail.com <transfire / gmail.com> wrote: > > Daniel Berger wrote: > >> Think about MS Windows. Then think about UNC paths. > > What's problem there? > > They work differently than most people expect. Remember, on most > Windows paths, you need a drive: C:\Foo\Bar\Baz. But on UNC paths, you > need \\server\share\Foo\Bar\Baz. > > C:\ is like / and so is \\server\share. Okay, I realize that. But how is this not taking that into account where as File.join or Pathname does? T.