From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-12-23T13:01:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby stops working under cygwin

On Dec 22, 10:55 pm, Li Chen <chen_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Luis Lavena wrote:
> > On Dec 21, 2:47 pm, Li Chen <chen_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> $ irb
> >> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> > From my experience Cygwin doens't play nice with Windows Native API.
> > For having Win32OLE working properly I suggest you use One-Click Ruby
> > Installer instead.
>
> >http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller
>
> Hi Luis,
>
> I also have One-Click Ruby Installer on my PC. The problem is that
> timeout doesn't work under PC.  So I try Cygwin  and I find it works
> fine.
>

But then Win32OLE will not work properly under Cygwin. There is always
a catch.

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Luis Lavena