This may or may not help, but by combining thoughts from others on this 
topic, I added an #onMac: method to FileDirectory. It works similarly 
to the #on: method, so that:
     (FileDirectory onMac: '/Users') directoryNames
returns a collection of directory names in the /Users directory and
     (FileDirectory onMac: 'images') fileNames
returns a collection of file names in the images directory inside the 
place where the image is. Though I have yet to test it, it should work 
under Linux as well.


onMac: pathString
	"Return a new file directory (even on Mac OS/X) for the given path, of 
the appropriate FileDirectory subclass for the current OS platform."
	| newPathString |
	FileDirectory pathNameDelimiter = $: ifFalse: [^ self on: pathString].
	newPathString := pathString replaceAll: $/ with: $:.
	^ FileDirectory on: ((newPathString at: 1) = $:
		ifTrue: [(FileDirectory default pathName subStrings: ':') first, 
newPathString]
		ifFalse: [FileDirectory default pathName, ':', newPathString])


On Mar 20, 2004, at 11:11 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> may be this related but I cannot see files that are located in another 
> volumes on mac.
> In fact I can only see the part of the file tree that leads to the 
> place where the image is.
> I do not know if this is just me but this is strange.
>
> Stef
>
>