David T. Lewis wrote:
> So I retract my comment that it would make sense in Squeak to be able read
> the directory file. Squeak is just doing what the underlying platform lets
> it do, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Yes, there is. Squeak supposedly provides common abstractions across 
platforms and this difference in behavior between Windows and Unix/Mac 
is clearly violating the common abstraction.

If I want to indulge in platform-specific quirks I use Python ;-)

Cheers,
   - Andreas