From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-08T01:05:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01778] Re: Ruby on Win/NT

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01777] Ruby on Win/NT"
    on 00/03/07, "Dat Nguyen" <thucdat@hotmail.com> writes:

|The native unix-oriented stuffs cause exceptions, for instance `date`.

Unless you have proper date.exe on your machine.

|That is, if a Ruby program is to be portable, it should not use platform 
|dependent stuffs.
|
|Am I wrong?

No, using some features of Ruby makes programs non-portable.

							matz.