From: Tom Clarke <tom@...2i.com>
Date: 2002-12-10T08:57:26+09:00
Subject: Re: raa-install on Win32

I've heard about this problem before - I don't think it was caused by
anything you did. It's unfortunate, the only reason the gzip library
is in the package is for windows users....

Maybe I'll check it out on a windows box and see if I can figure out
what's up.

-Tom

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:53:36AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
>