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Problem with debugger on FreeBSD 1 40 (5/4/2004 7:27:03 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hi, I just upgraded from ports on FreeBSD, and for some reason ruby's debugger forces me to enter each command 5 times. Any idea what would cause this? Thanks, Travis travis@aop:~$ uname -a FreeBSD aop.intran... Travis

IO.seek behaving strangely on FreeBSD 4.9 5 52 (4/1/2004 12:29:47 AM) comp.lang.ruby Hi, Initially I thought that this was a bug with rubyzip, but it appears that something is wrong with IO.seek on FreeBSD 4.9 (at least on my system). travis@aop:~$ uname -a FreeBSD aop.intranet 4.9-RELEASE-p4 ... Travis

Hardware query from the shell 2 35 (2/26/2004 5:27:38 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi, I'm a Linux user who's just recently migrated to OSX. When I was contemplating the big switch, I remember seeing an article with a shell command to list the status of all the internal fans on a powerbookk.... Travis

Determining age of a linux install 7 52 (11/10/2003 7:46:24 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi guys, I have a question that's been nagging at my brain for a while. Is there any way to accurately determine how old a linux install is? I have a linux router running Debian that's been dist-upgraded from S... Travis

Problem Dynamically Loading a Module 2 26 (9/15/2003 4:09:28 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hi all, I'm having some trouble with trying to dynamically load a module at runtime. The following example demonstrates the problem I'm encountering. dyninclude.rb -------------------- class DynamicInclude d... Travis

Getting class name 2 38 (8/29/2003 3:44:57 PM) comp.lang.python Hello all, I've googled a bit, and I've failed to find an answer to this question. Is it possible to get a classes name from inside of a class? I.e., class Foo: def print_classname(self): # somehow... Travis

[ANN] filemagic 0 31 (7/28/2003 8:41:19 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hello, FileMagic is a Ruby binding to the magic(4) library, which you may know better as the file(1) command. The file command identifies the type of a file using, among other tests, a test for whether the fil... Travis

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[OT] Why is it called string? 20 28 (8/21/2003 1:52:55 PM) comp.lang.python I have always been curious about why a construct like: a = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is called a string. I have always assumed that it was a reference to a necklace type construct as in... bkelley (95)

Problem Dynamically Loading a Module 2 26 (9/15/2003 4:09:28 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hi all, I'm having some trouble with trying to dynamically load a module at runtime. The following example demonstrates the problem I'm encountering. dyninclude.rb -------------------- class DynamicInclude d... whitton (13)

Hardware query from the shell 2 35 (2/26/2004 5:27:38 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi, I'm a Linux user who's just recently migrated to OSX. When I was contemplating the big switch, I remember seeing an article with a shell command to list the status of all the internal fans on a powerbookk.... whitton (13)

IO.seek behaving strangely on FreeBSD 4.9 5 52 (4/1/2004 12:29:47 AM) comp.lang.ruby Hi, Initially I thought that this was a bug with rubyzip, but it appears that something is wrong with IO.seek on FreeBSD 4.9 (at least on my system). travis@aop:~$ uname -a FreeBSD aop.intranet 4.9-RELEASE-p4 ... whitton (13)

Problem with debugger on FreeBSD 1 40 (5/4/2004 7:27:03 PM) comp.lang.ruby Hi, I just upgraded from ports on FreeBSD, and for some reason ruby's debugger forces me to enter each command 5 times. Any idea what would cause this? Thanks, Travis travis@aop:~$ uname -a FreeBSD aop.intran... whitton (13)

Confused about locking a file via file.flock(File::LOCK_EX) 5 37 (7/25/2003 3:19:11 PM) comp.lang.ruby I am writing a ruby appl under AIX where I need to update the /etc/hosts table. I would like to make sure that during my update nobody else can update that file. I thought I found a solution to my problem with ... aix_tech (10)