From: J J Date: 2001-04-29T09:10:03+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:14395] Re: Where for art thou, rdtool for Win9x? X-noarchive=yes Thanks to you I finally got it running. Unfortunately all the examples of rd documented files haven't had much of anything worthwhile in them. Where might I find your browser, it sounds good? Regards, John -- Be Kind, Be Careful, Be Yourself -- Solid, reliable software at reasonable prices http://www.johnjohnsonsoftware.com "rise" wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.30.0104281107330.2962-100000@leannan.knavery.net... > 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. > > > 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. > > -- > Jonathan Conway The thing about Unix is that all the hoops are > rise@knavery.net flaming, so at least you know where they are... > > > > > >