> From: Christoph Rippel [mailto:crippel / primenet.com]
> Subject: [ruby-talk:7772] RE: Problem: file copy on NT
> 
> 
> On my W2K box with a fairly current cvs version of ruby 
> (cygwin-1.1.6 compiled) the
> output looks like the output of your HP machine?
> 
> Christoph
> 

Thanks for checking W2K. I'm also running ruby 1.1.6 compiled that I
downloaded recently ).
If anybody out there is also on NT4, I'd still like to hear if the problem
is particular to my setup. 
Here's the code and output again ( and BTW, the copy is performed correctly
in both the NT and 
HP-UX cases ).

Thanks,
Barry

require 'ftools'

begin
 fh = File.open("donkey","w");
 fh.close
 File.copy("donkey","horse");
rescue EOFError
 puts "trying to rescue you"
ensure
 puts "last ditch effort" 
end

On NT 4 the output is:

Exception `EOFError' at /cygdrive/d/barry/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/ftools.rb:37
last ditch effort

On HP-UX the output is:

last ditch effort