From: rise <rise@...>
Date: 2001-04-29T02:15:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14380] Re: Where for art thou, rdtool for Win9x?

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, J J wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where I can get a functional rdtool for Win9x? I
> scoured the net looking for stuff, found racc and all sorts of things
> I needed, now it looks like I have to install cygwin to compile it
> all.

As far as I know RDTool is pure Ruby, so you shouldn't need to compile
anything.  From the Racc "README.en":

  If you don't have C compiler, "config" step might be:

  $ ruby setup.rb config --without=ext/*

The pure Ruby parser is going to be lower performance, but it might work
for you.

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Toshiro Kuwabara wrote:
> RDtool doesn't have the equivalent of perldoc. it's just an formatter.
> Pragmatic Programmers' `ri' is similar to perldoc -f, I think.

<plug severity="shameless">
There's also the RDBrowse application I wrote to search for and display
RD, but it still uses the RDTool library under the hood.  The next release
is likely to do it's own parsing.
</plug>
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