From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T17:02:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News 29th Nov - 5th Dec 2004

"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
> Sigh... that good is it?  I wish it worked on Cygwin...

It does. Your problem is probably extraneous newlines in the string. Try 
making it all one line, or get Florian's original post's attachment, or try 
my slightly golfed version at
http://www.dave.burt.id.au/ruby/duck_golf.rb

Cheers,
Dave