From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-14T15:53:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6349] Re: interpreter does nothing in interactive mode

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6348] interpreter does nothing in interactive mode"
    on 00/11/14, eluddite@my-deja.com <eluddite@my-deja.com> writes:

|I cant get a proper install on RedHat-7.0. Make
|test is successful but ruby isnt echoing anything
|when used interactively. For example:

Well, unlike Python, like Perl, invoking Ruby without script does not
make it interactive mode, it just read script from stdin.  If you want
interactive mode, try separate program called `irb' (Interactive RuBy).

							matz.