From: ChrisH Date: 2007-03-09T22:05:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Input syntax On Mar 9, 3:16 am, "mosar" wrote: > I have tried this little program taken from rubylearning.com site: > > puts "In which city do you stay ?" > > city= gets.chomp > puts "The city is " + city > > At the right part of the Scite window I get > > >ruby Dhomp.rb > > In which city do you stay ? > > >Exit code: -1073741510 > > I get another window which should be the so-called output window > (black) in which I should be able to write the name of the city. But I > can't write in. The window's name is:C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe. I suppose > that this is not the correct one. > Thanks for your help. > > mosar This kind of interaction doesn't work in SciTe, try running it from a cmd shell. Cheers Chris