From: Ropebender <ropebender@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T02:29:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Very rank beginner.

Now I see, SciTE is an excelent looking universal Text Editor :)  What a 
find!   I would have never found it but for your hint.  Thanks loads!  SciTE 
will help in lots of ways.. Notebook -- never again :))

That answered the second question too, no, you can't run the program from a 
text editor,  Silly me.  So I am left with the last one:  how to keep the 
blasted window open or redirect the output.

Van!!
"Ropebender" <ropebender@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message 
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> Thanks for the tip ...   Another question:
>
> When I write an  xxx.rb program in Notebook and try to run it, the cmd 
> window will not stay open.  On earlier versions of Windows you could make 
> a .pif file to control if the window stayed open or closed, but in XP it 
> seems they have taken that away.  I looked up all the commands and opening 
> perameters I could find and can't seem to find one that will cause the CMD 
> window to wtay open after the program runs so I can see the results.  I 
> either need to do that, or redirect the output to LPT1 so I can see what I 
> did.  Does SciTE allow you to read in and run a program from a file?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Van!!
>
> "Phlip" <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:p4dbl.17653$Ws1.11925@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com...
>>> irb(main):033:0> class Greeter
>>
>> Don't use irb. If you use Windows, the One Click Installer comes with 
>> SciTE.exe. Run that, and it will run your ruby for you each time you hit 
>> <F5>.
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