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Hi all, As fate would have it I''m giving away my old desktop to a friend who has no computer. The upside is that means I have room to setup my old-old desktop, which happens to have Windows 2000 on it. It''s a dual Pentium-II 400 with 512mb of RAM. I installed the Ruby 1.8.6 one-click on it, and it already had VC++ 6 on it. Fairly zippy, actually. What I would like to do is

Hi, I added the Windows::WSA module to windows-pr recently (it''s in the latest git repo). However, I can''t seem to make WSAStartup work. I tried the following bit of code, only to get "The Windows Sockets version requested is not supported" on my Vista box. Is it really not supported on Vista? The docs say Win2k or later. Or is there another issue? require

Hi all, With the latest 1.8.6 release out today, I was wondering - what would you all think of a Windows-only fork of Ruby? I mean Perl has ActiveState, right? It ships with a slightly different interpreter and different libraries, so why not Ruby? Here''s what I''m thinking: * Win2k or later. No 95/98/ME support. No cygwin/mingw, either. * Assume VC++ 8. Use whatever

Support Requests item #4264, was opened at 2006-04-26 15:07 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=412&aid=4264&group_id=85 Category: Install Problem (example) Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Nobody (None) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: win32 process Initial Comment: I try to use the fork example, but I

Patches item #6236, was opened at 2006-10-19 07:10 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=413&aid=6236&group_id=85 >Category: windows-pr Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Jano Svitok (janek) >Assigned to: Daniel Berger (djberg96) Summary: Add debug API Initial Comment: This adds couple of methods to

Patches item #6237, was opened at 2006-10-19 07:11 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=413&aid=6237&group_id=85 >Category: windows-pr Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Jano Svitok (janek) >Assigned to: Daniel Berger (djberg96) Summary: Add Guid API Initial Comment: This adds API for creating GUIDs.

Bugs item #6722, was opened at 2006-11-17 05:17 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=411&aid=6722&group_id=85 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Nobody (None) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: win32-changenotify fails on Ruby 1.8.4 Initial Comment: throws an exception when loading, roughly

Hi Park, I tried your latest patch and ran the sample code: readPipe, writePipe = IO.pipe t = Thread.new{ sleep 5 while true sleep 0.1 puts "got #{readPipe.readline.length} bytes" end } i = 1 while true i += 1 sleep 1 puts "hello from main" if i > 3 writePipe.puts "a"*2048 end end t.join At the console I typed the

Bugs item #4598, was opened at 2006-05-29 11:20 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=411&aid=4598&group_id=85 Category: win32-eventlog Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Nobody (None) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: possible wrong condition Initial Comment: Is this condition right? (eventlog.rb, line 494

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Feature Requests item #3978, was opened at 2006-03-30 05:01 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414&aid=3978&group_id=85 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Nobody (None) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Compile files for Ruby One-Click installer Initial Comment: Compile the files so they work

Feature Requests item #3502, was opened at 2006-02-08 10:29 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414&aid=3502&group_id=85 Category: win32-open3 Group: Code Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 4 Submitted By: Daniel Berger (djberg96) Assigned to: Park Heesob (phasis68) Summary: Allow win32-open3 to take a block Initial Comment: I think we

Patches item #4603, was opened at 2006-05-29 16:07 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=413&aid=4603&group_id=85 Category: win32-open3 Group: Bug Fix Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: John-Mason Shackelford (jpshackelford) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: [open3] set $? and return Process::Status with block call Initial

Bugs item #10589, was opened at 2007-05-04 12:01 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=411&aid=10589&group_id=85 Category: win32-mmap Group: Code Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Daniel Berger (djberg96) Assigned to: Daniel Berger (djberg96) Summary: Bug in win32-mmap Initial Comment: Ruby 1.8.6 win32-mmap 0.2.1 Assigning

Hi all, Just looking to buy Windows 7. Where do y''all shop for your Windows software these days? I found this: http://elecsurf.com/win7u-64-dd.html Seemed like a pretty good price. Any other suggestions? Regards, Dan

Feature Requests item #1435, was opened at 2005-02-03 12:19 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414&aid=1435&group_id=85 Category: win32-file Group: Code Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Daniel Berger (djberg96) Assigned to: Daniel Berger (djberg96) Summary: Move native IO routines to the IO class Initial Comment: The

Feature Requests item #1316, was opened at 2005-01-10 10:07 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414&aid=1316&group_id=85 Category: Interface Improvements (example) Group: Code Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Nobody (None) >Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Support for Win32 Remote Access API Initial Comment: I am

Feature Requests item #1446, was opened at 2005-02-04 20:14 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414&aid=1446&group_id=85 Category: None Group: None Status: Open >Resolution: Accepted Priority: 3 Submitted By: Daniel Berger (djberg96) >Assigned to: Daniel Berger (djberg96) >Summary: Add a &quot;filesystem&quot; interface

Feature Requests item #1446, was opened at 2005-02-04 20:14 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414&aid=1446&group_id=85 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: Accepted Priority: 3 Submitted By: Daniel Berger (djberg96) Assigned to: Daniel Berger (djberg96) >Summary: Add a &amp;quot;filesystem&amp;quot; interface

Feature Requests item #1460, was opened at 2005-02-05 13:12 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414&aid=1460&group_id=85 Category: win32-file Group: Code >Status: Closed >Resolution: Accepted Priority: 3 Submitted By: Daniel Berger (djberg96) >Assigned to: Daniel Berger (djberg96) Summary: Redefine File.stat Initial Comment: The