[DotGNU]using Platform; error messages

[Charles Shuller]

I can't seem to get anything from Platform.FileMethod to work.  Am I 
missing a flag or something??

Some Specifics:

I don't actually care too much about FileMethod in particular, but I 
decided to start implementing the System.IO functions in pnetlib, and 
this seems to require calling methods which are built in to the runtime 
environment and abstracted away by the Platform Objects. (Let me know if 
I'm wrong).  However whenever I attempt to use a Platform method, 
specifically:

Platform.FileMethods.ValidatePathname(".");

I get:

chazz_hello.cs:9: `Platform' is not declared in the current scope
chazz_hello.cs:9: invalid left operand to `.'
chazz_hello.cs:9: invalid left operand to `.'
chazz_hello.cs:9: called object is not a method or delegate


I have tried every 'using' statement I can think of.

I don't think it is important, but just in case, some details about my 
system:

Linux ranmaru 2.4.18 #7 Tue Sep 24 13:09:54 CDT 2002 i686 unknown

GLIBC 2.2.5

GCC 3.1.1

Thanks!

--Charles