Jeffrey Schwab wrote:

> Excellent.  I would appreciate it if you would post the code.

Hmmm... What does:

  File.expand_path('/')

produce on a Windows machine?

> Sometimes I forget that Ruby zeitgeist lets us add methods at will to
> existing packages.  In my native land of C++, client code is
> specifically prohibited from messing with the standard (std::) namespace.

Yep Yep.

T.