From: Yohanes Santoso <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2002-05-04T04:52:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Sockets problem

"Kontra, Gergely" <kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu> writes:

> Azt irtad, hogy
> 
> >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 $/
> 
> What if I don't know, that connections are from mac, unix or windows?

I think that's why many protocols specify "\r\n" as the line ending combo.

YS.