Ronald Fischer wrote:
> On my Ruby 1.8.5 under Windows, I have:
> 
>     C:> ruby -e 'puts File::SEPARATOR' 
>     /
> 
> Shouldn't it output '\' instead?
> 
> Ronald

Nope, this variable correct because within ruby and its core libraries, 
everything can open files with forward slash separated paths. Try it. It 
is probably more reliable than using paths with backslashes (no 
potential for confusing the file separator with the escape character). 
Now, if you need to pass the path to a non-ruby app, then you will need 
to convert them to backslashes.

Dan