From: George Jempty <jb4mt@...>
Date: 2002-01-13T04:26:37+09:00
Subject: Re: eval.rb on cygwin

"Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote in message
news:tg%%7.1355$WM6.408553@e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com...
> a few things:
> 1) On the page: http://www.ruby-lang.org/~slagell/ruby/examples.html
> There is a link to an 'enchanced eval.rb' which points to:
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/~slagell/ruby/eval.rb
> The code for eval.rb is there.
> 2) You can use irb to do essentially the same thing (I don't know if irb
> replaced eval.rb or what happended exactly).  If you type 'irb'
> (stands for 'interactive Ruby' I suspect) at the
> commandline you'll be able to do essentially the same as is done in the
> tutorial with eval.rb.
> 3) I did find eval.rb in the source distribution in the samples subdir,
> but if you're on Windows you probably don't have it (since you didn't
> build from source).

Excellent.  I missed point #1.  As for point #2, irb does indeed come with
cygwin and, now that I've tried it, I know it works quite nicely.  Finally,
as to point #3, thanks to Mr Wheeler for emailing me the eval.rb file,
seperate from the entire windows distro, it works too.