From: Urban Hafner <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2002-05-01T04:41:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Sockets problem

Matthew PATTISON <mfp@students.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
[...]
> e.g. Ruby seems to wait a long time before gets() returns, even when there's 
> stuff waiting on the socket. I've tried setting $/ = "\r\f" but that didn't
> work - my script just hung. Any ideas? Is $/ the right variable to
> set so that socket.gets will look for a different line separator?

Hm, AFAIK Windows uses \r\n. Maybe that will work as $/

Urban

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