N Okia wrote:
> Tested it with cygwin under Windows XP, and it worked fine. Again,
> didn't have to hit spacebar for the thread to start up. Tried with
> One-Click Ruby on the same box, and it didn't work.
> 
> Windows lack of standard fork is probably the problem here.
> 
Ok, thanks much. One-click Ruby is /so/ convenient.
It's a real pity that threads don't work in it.

I have cygwin running on my machine at home. What's
the best way to get ruby running on it?

That works for me, at least. But the situation pretty
much kills my chances of distributing my timer app to
the world at large. Bummer.

(It's a simple little app. All it does is remind you
periodically to get off your chair and get some
exercise! A compiled executable would be ideal for
distribution, but I wouldn't have minded pointing
people to the one-click installer...)