On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:10:44 GMT, rerwig / my-deja.com <rerwig / my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <m2lms1qsuj.fsf / zip.local.thomases.com>,
>   Dave Thomas <Dave / PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
> >
> > It seems like the traditional ways are always the best.
> >
> > Having no idea _why_ the web server was truncating the download file,
> > the server got rebooted, and everything now seems fine. So, feel free
> > to start downloading the Ruby 1.6.2 installer from
> >
> >   http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ruby-install.html

> After installing on Windoew NT, I got this message when starting
> RybyWin for the first time:
> 
> Failed assertion
>   !(pos2 > len2)
> at line 126 of file
> /usr/local/cygwin/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2-5/../../../../inclu
> de/g++-3/std/bastring.cc

Make sure you have ruby162-1.exe, as ruby162-0.exe had this problem.

If you open up the RubyWin shortcut in the startup menu, you should 
see *no arguments* given to rubywin, and it should startup in a 
given directory.  If arguments are given to rubywin, you'll see
the error thrown above.

/\ndy


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