From: Kent Sibilev <ksibilev@...>
Date: 2004-06-10T15:16:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ri IO -> RuntimeError

I see the same exception in my WinXP box. After poking around, I can 
only guess that Ruby Windows Installer build 13 comes with the broken 
yaml library which unmarshals Symbol instances as plain strings.

Cheers,
Kent.

On Jun 9, 2004, at 11:57 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:

>
> On Jun 9, 2004, at 16:13, Stephan K�mper wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just noticed that ri fires a RuntimeError when called with
>> IO
>>
> ...
>
>> This happens on Win98 as well as XP running the 1-click-installer 
>> version 1.8.1-13.
>>
>> Has anybody else experienced this behaviour?
>
> Strange - I don't have a Window's box with ri installed, but I don't 
> see the behavior here under OSX or Linux. Is it possible you have an 
> old version lying around somewhere? Does anyone else see this?
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
>