The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.ruby as well.

Hi,

"Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker / jump.net> writes:

|# I'm trying that UNIX style Ruby programs run everywhere, while leaving
|# OS dependant (thus non-portable) programs possible.
|
|Out of curiosity, do you generally regard Linux as the reference UNIX style
|under circumstances where other UNIX variants differ?

I've rarely meet the situation where UNIX difference matters, but I'd
choose POSIX as the reference on the case.

							matz.