On Sat, 22 May 2004 22:03:00 GMT, Tim Hunter <cyclists / nc.rr.com> wrote: >It's okay to delete them now. You can always get the tarball again from >the same place you got it from this time. > >P.S. >If you want to read the source code to the Ruby translator, then you >should keep the unpacked source files. Oh, I always keep the tarballs-- if not on the hard disk, then on some backup medium. I'm a pack rat :-) But thank you! I gather that the procedure people have described for installing Ruby is pretty standard for tarballs, right (I'm pretty new at this).