From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-05-15T03:15:59+09:00
Subject: Re: 'gets'  flagged as 'Bad file descriptor' - why?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RLMuller" <RLMuller@comcast.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 12:20 PM
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.

Hmm. Not sure on this one.

My first question is: Are you running this
by double-clicking on an icon, or from the
command line?


Hal