From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-03-17T16:26:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie problem

Hi,

At Sat, 16 Mar 2002 20:48:10 +0900,
Liorean wrote:
> >Possibly, it may be a problem fixed in more recent versions.
> >You can get the latest version from
> ><http://www.ruby-lang.org/~eban/ruby/binaries/cygwin/>.
> ># Needs cygwin environment though.
> 
> I installed cygwin 1.3.9-1 dll. Now it doesn't throw an error, but
> instead the gets returns nil.
> I guess that means the next question is how to get the keyboard input
> to be read by $stdin.

When you run like this, it returns soon without you type any key?

  C:\> ruby -e $stdin.gets

> >What school?  Education with Ruby?
> 
> Nah... webdesign. "Chose your serverside (CGI/ASP/PHP/JSP)
> language/interface, but do these assignments" stuff. I decided on
> Ruby, since it looks by far the cleanest and easiest to use.

Well, maybe good choice.

-- 
Nobu Nakada