From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-11-15T03:48:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner needs help...

Caesar Salad wrote:
> Hey everyone!
> 
> I've recently got in touch with the Ruby programming language and
> thought it was very interesting and useful, way better than a ton of
> other languages.
> 
> Anyway, I need some help on a few things:
> 
> 1) Is there a way to detect if a program was launched? If yes, can I
> block this launch and restart it when desired?
What's the platform?  Windows?  I suspect the answer's no, but there may 
be hooks to do this that I don't know about.

> 2) Can I make Ruby read *.dat files and convert them into *.txt?
The answer's probably yes, but what type of .dat file are these?  What 
program produced them?  There are many, many different file formats 
going by the .dat extension :-)

-- 
Alex