From: Steve Merrick Date: 2000-09-01T23:10:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:4730] Re: Getting started "ts" wrote in message news:200009010810.e818AaM28356@orsay1.moulon.inra.fr... > >>>>> "S" == Steve Merrick writes: > > S> Then could someone please identify the latest Windows NT version for me, > S> and where to get it from? TIA. > > You can look at RAA in the category Ports > > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html > > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=i386-mswin32 Thanks, Guy, for the tip. Sadly, there is no download available at the above URL: Category: Ports/mswin32 Project name: i386-mswin32 Version: 1.4.5 Status: usable Last update: 2000-07-15 12:46:42 GMT Owner: Michael Neumann Homepage: http://www.s-direktnet.de/homepages/neumann/rb_prgs/ Download: not available License: Ruby's Description: Ruby Distributions for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. back to RAA list - update this entry --------------------------------------------------------------- Site Map What's Ruby? What's New? FAQ HotLinks Download Archive Documents Mailing List Testimonials Who's Who Japanese Page Written by webmaster@ruby-lang.org If I follow http://hydrogen.ruby-lang.org/en/download.html, as suggested by Conrad, and then "You can get compiled binary for Win32/DOS", I find the following: Current Directory /pub/lang/ruby/pc Parent Directory 1.0 Aug 11 1998 Directory 1.1 May 11 1999 Directory 1.2 Sep 20 1999 Directory 1.3 Sep 20 1999 Directory GD-0.5-cygwin32-dll.zip 23 KB Dec 16 1997 GD-0.6.2-cygwin.zip 25 KB Sep 06 1999 RubyCRT-VC60SP4.zip 759 KB Aug 09 20:15 cygwin18.zip 214 KB May 19 1997 cygwinb19.zip 239 KB Aug 27 1998 gwb19 Aug 13 1998 Directory mandel-cygwin.zip 2 KB Sep 06 1999 mandel.dll.zip 1 KB Feb 19 1998 mdarray-0.1-cygwin32-dll.zip 5 KB Dec 16 1997 rbcw140-socket-B20.zip 13 KB Sep 09 1999 rbcw140-socket.zip 13 KB Aug 18 1999 rbcw140.zip 636 KB Aug 17 1999 rbcw142.zip 643 KB Sep 18 1999 rbcw142j.exe 1 MB Sep 19 1999 rbcw143-Win32API.zip 2 KB Mar 06 14:01 rbcw143.zip 650 KB Dec 09 1999 rbcw144.zip 602 KB Apr 17 12:53 rbcw145.zip 645 KB Jul 10 14:22 rbdj140.zip 467 KB Aug 17 1999 rbdj142.zip 503 KB Sep 18 1999 rbdj143.zip 509 KB Dec 09 1999 rbdj144.zip 481 KB Apr 17 12:53 rbdj145.zip 486 KB Jul 11 11:16 rbgwdll.zip 40 KB Dec 08 1997 ruby-gtk-0.21-cygwin.zip 99 KB Aug 26 1999 ruby-gtk-0.23-cygwin.zip 72 KB Mar 21 12:26 ruby-gtk-SNAPSHOT-19990807-c 99 KB Aug 09 1999 tcltklib-8.1a1-cygwin-dll.zi 2 KB Mar 02 1998 uconv-cygwin.zip 92 KB Mar 21 12:26 xmlparser-cygwin.zip 70 KB Mar 21 12:26 Which of these do I want/need? rbcw145.zip and rbdj145.zip look tempting. Do I need anything else to go with them to make my Windows NT4 SP4 Ruby work OK? I'm sorry to appear so stupid, but this is not at all clear to me. Perhaps if it isn't obvious to me, others might also have trouble? -- Steve Merrick