Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> 
> > > now try this one!!!
> > >         eval '^'
> > Yeah, try it under Windows 98 ... kaboom!
> 
> kaboom? ruby, or the whole os?
> 
> here it does infinite loop...
> 
> matju

The whole OS. Probably it just reflects on how unpredictably W98 can
behave when an app does something wrong.  I just tried it again and was
able to close the cygwin window from the outside - but the first time it
blew everything away, wouldn't let me switch windows or bring up the
task manager or anything, I had to reset.  Probably NT is a bit more
trustworthy about such things?  I normally use Linux, and am going
through a little microsoft-experimentation phase.  Doubtless it'll pass
quickly...