I was under the impression that File::SEPARATOR is platform specific. I tried to find a previous post about this, but didn't dig anything up. Is my impression wrong? ------------------------------------------- Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. C:\>ruby -e 'p File::SEPARATOR' "/" C:\>ruby --version ruby 1.6.3 (2001-03-19) [i386-cygwin]