From: The Resident Drunk <charlesb@...>
Date: 2002-08-22T06:24:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Bot

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 01:09, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> > again this is unix specific... in windows it's  in c:\windows\lmhosts
> > iirc. /etc/hosts hold the ip <-> name solution lijnes for machines that
> > are on your local network usually as I have indicated below.
> > 
> > 192.168.0.1     firewall.summerfield-technology.co.uk fw
> > 192.168.0.2	dev.summerfield-technology.co.uk dev
> > etc
> > etc
> 
> Can I just copy the windows one to where linux expects it?
I would presume so the two files are exactly the same iirc

or you could just modify the code to look in \windows if it's running
under win etc but i don't know what else u would need to change


> 
> > > And even when creating this file it failed by saying that the 
> > > required address was not valid for its context.
> > 
> > What i'm going to do is if i get time tonight i'm going to d/l ruby for
> > windows and rbot (again :) ) and i'll have a go... I'll keep you all
> > posted as to how i get on.
> 
> Thank you very much.
np, i haven't had time to do it yet ;) but it's on my list of things to
do. I'm trying to rewrite a yahoo chat client atm... and yes it's in
ruby :)

regards
charles