From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-12-10T07:53:36+09:00
Subject: raa-install on Win32

Hello...

I've played with this a little, and offhand I
haven't yet seen a compelling reason it shouldn't
(in theory) run on Win32.

I made a couple of minor changes, and here is
where it chokes (see below). Not sure why.

  Downloading project data
  http://narf-lib.sourceforge.net/raa/raa-xml-compacted.xml.gz
  .............C:/RUBY167/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/raainstall.rb:42:in `read':
unexp
  ected end of file (Zlib::GzipFile::Error)
          from C:/RUBY167/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/raainstall.rb:42:in
`get_data'
          from C:/RUBY167/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/raainstall.rb:41:in `open'
          from C:/RUBY167/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/raainstall/raaopen.rb:51:in
`open'
          from C:/RUBY167/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/raainstall/raaopen.rb:13:in
`open'
          from
C:/RUBY167/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/raainstall/raaopen.rb:214:in `open'
          from C:/RUBY167/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/raainstall.rb:41:in
`get_data'
          from C:/RUBY167/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/raainstall.rb:52:in `all'
          from C:/RUBY167/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/raainstall.rb:66:in
`search'
          from c:/ruby167/bin/rai.rb:69

FYI, I'm on Win98 so I can't use the ASSOC trick
or whatever it is.

I used my "generic .exe" trick that I posted a
few months back, which seemed to necessitate
changing the filename to 8.3 form (since the
C program's ARGV[0] was a shortened form and
was causing problems).

I also removed the shebang line (if I recall
correctly). And I perhaps made one other change,
but can't think what it was. Oops. :)

Anyhow, this is just in case anyone is working
on a Windoze version.

Hal