From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-12-06T22:15:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 2.0

Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> On Monday, December 6, 2004, 10:43:50 PM, Michael wrote:
> 
> 
>>ruby -rcomplex
>>-e'c,m,w,h=Complex(-0.75,0.136),50,200,100;puts"P6\n"+\
>>"#{w}
>>#{h}\n255";(0...h).each{|j|(0...w).each{|i|n,z=0,Complex(0.9*i/w,\
>>0.9*j/h);while n<=m&&(z-c).abs<=2;z=z*z+c;n+=1 end;print [20+n*10,0,\
>>rand*99].pack("C*")}}'|display
> 
> 
> Running that on Cygwin, I get
> 
> display: unable to open X server `'.
> -e:4:in `write': Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE)
>         from -e:4:in `print'
>         from -e:4
>         from -e:2:in `each'
>         from -e:2
>         from -e:2:in `each'
>         from -e:2
> 
> Probably a platform issue, but I gotta say I'm a bit surprised.

Probably due to 'display'. The ruby code generates a .pnm image, which 
is then displayed using 'display' (ImageMagick).

Regards,

   Michael