From: RLMuller <RLMuller@...>
Date: 2003-05-15T03:56:48+09:00
Subject: Re: 'gets'  flagged as 'Bad file descriptor' - why?

Hi Hal,

Great book!

I've been running from an SciTE environment, where I've run many other Ruby
test pgms.  Since you raised the question, I tested from a Command Window
... successfully!   Thanks.

Of course, now I have a Ruby/SciTE question.  If you have any suggestion as
whom to contact about that,
I'd appreciate additional advice.  Perhaps I'll re-post this question under
a new subject.

Regards,
Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 2:15 PM
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
>
>