[ruby-talk:10954] Re: Etc module documentation?

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ptkwt / shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes:

> A followup to my earlier query about getlogin()...  The answer was
> that it's in the Etc module, but I don't see anything about that
> module in either the Pickaxe book or the online library reference.
> Is Etc documented anywhere?  Now I'm wondering what other goodies
> I'm missing...

Have a look in the ext/ and lib/ subdirectories in the standard
distribution.

We simply ran out of room in the pickaxe book to document every module 
supplied with Ruby: some of them are obsolete, and some are rarely
used, so there are gaps (and opportunities for other book writers...)


Dave