From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-06-22T05:41:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16724] Re: Win32 EventLog

In article <e1366d2e.0106201405.152a488b@posting.google.com>,
Mark Hudson <mark@iot.com> wrote:
>Are there any Ruby applications similar to the Win32 modules in Perl? 
>I would like to be able to read/process messages from an NT event log
>using Ruby.  Any info would be appreciated.

I've set up a project on SourceForge for Win32 modules/extensions for 
Ruby.  Right now there's not much there, in fact there are only three 
functions in the module so far:
IsNT? - returns true if you're running on WinNT or Win2K
Is9x? - returns true if you're running on Win9x (and probably on WinME as 
        well, but haven't tried)
TimedSystem - a system command with a timer.  After the timeout has been 
      reached it sends a '^C' to the process' input handle and if that 
      still doesn't work it sends a terminateprocess to it.

In a few weeks I'll have a lot more time to work on this - ultimately I 
hope to duplicate a big chunc of Perl's Win32 module functionality, but 
it'll take time.

Phil