From: RLMuller <RLMuller@...>
Date: 2003-05-15T02:20:11+09:00
Subject: 'gets'  flagged as 'Bad file descriptor' - why?

Hi All.
 
I'm a newbie to Ruby.  When I tried running the following code excerpted
from The Ruby Way, p. 405, on a Win2000SP3 system using ruby 1.6.8
(2002-12-24) [i586-mswin32]:
 
     require "win32ole"
     print "Enter the filename to print: "
     docfile = gets
     ...
 
 returns an error for line 3:
 
     `gets': Bad file descriptor (Errno::EBADF)
 
 Thanks for any info you may be able to offer.
 
 Regards,
Richard Muller