From: aastanti@... (Alfio Astanti)
Date: 2003-12-24T00:06:52+09:00
Subject: Re: question about I/O and pipes

"Randy W. Sims" <RandyS@ThePierianSpring.org> wrote in message news:<3FE28D7C.2070505@ThePierianSpring.org>...
> One more time with a little less perl.
> 
> -----><8-----
> @rem = '--*-Ruby-*--
> @echo off
> if "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto WinNT
> ruby -x -S "%0" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> goto endofruby
> :WinNT
> ruby -x -S %0 %*
> if NOT "%COMSPEC%" == "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe" goto endofruby
> if %errorlevel% == 9009 echo You do not have Ruby in your PATH.
> if errorlevel 1 goto script_failed_so_exit_with_non_zero_val 2>nul
> goto endofruby
> @rem ';
> #!ruby
> #line 15
> 
> cnt = 0
> $stdin.each_line {|line| cnt = cnt + 1 }
> print cnt,"\n"
> 
> __END__
> :endofruby
>  -----><8-----


How is supposed to work?

With ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-mswin32] I got:

F:\ruby\>count < count.bat
ruby: No such file or directory -- count (LoadError)

I get the same if I just type count (+ENTER) while double-clicking reads STDIN ...

Confused
AA