I tried compiling the native-win32 port of ruby, and it seems to be working well. Is there a particular reason for discouraging native-win32 ( except fork(), but system() works, hopefully popen() should also work.). --Vardhan At 11:12 PM 30-07-01, Dave Thomas wrote: >"Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner / uark.edu> writes: > > > Ruby164-2.exe does not work in my Win2k box. Judging by other > > posts, it does not work for some other users also. A post from > > Holger Arndt, July 24, indicates a problem with the version of > > cygwin packaged with 1.6.4. Is anyone working on this? > >I have the 164-2 program running fine on W2k. I;ve tried it using the >cygwin dll that comes with it, and also with the latest cygwin from >RedHat. > >Exactly what happens when you try to run it. Do you have any other >cygwin dlls lying around. Tell us more... > >Dave -- Vardhan Varma <VardhanVarma / yahoo.com> ... till Yahoo is free _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com