From: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@...>
Date: 2001-04-09T22:47:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13574] Re: basic UNIX command and Ruby

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Brett W. McCoy wrote:

> I don't know of any specific books targeted to Windows Users, but you
> might want to look into installing CygWin on your Windows machine -- it
> gives you a Unix-like environment and a system call interface that
> resembles Unix, as well as lots of GNU utilities like Perl, gcc, etc.  I
> haven't tried building Ruby under CygWin, but I notice that the prebuilt
> Ruby binary for Windows uses CygWin.

[Answering my own post...]

I tried it, Ruby builds flawlessly under CygWin.  You should install
CygWin if you really want to follow the Unixy stuff used in the book.  And
you get a decent command-line environment as well!

-- Brett
				   http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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