From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-01-15T10:37:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault on gets

I know that I get this error if I run it in SciTe 1.41 on Windows XP:

    >ruby tst.rb
    tst.rb:2:in `gets': Bad file descriptor (Errno::EBADF)
     from tst.rb:2
    What is your name?>Exit code: 1

But I have ** always ** got it to work in command shell (at the C:\>
prompt).

On your machine, what does the output of  "ruby -v" look like, Leon ?

--  shanko

"Dr. Leon Stevens" <stevensl@lincolnu.edu> wrote in message
news:NFBBKIJCMLMMEMOCCCDLCEKJCCAA.stevensl@lincolnu.edu...
> I'm trying to do simple keyboard input:
>
> a = ""
> a = gets
> puts a
>
> I'm running Ruby 1.6.7, under Win 98 SE.
>
> When I type the first letter, I receive the message
>
> [bug] Segmentation Fault.
>
> I've removed Ruby and reinstalled it several times, with consistent
> failures.
>
> 1. What do I need to do?
>
> 2. There MUST be a better way. What is it?
>
> Leon
>
>