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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: Sockets problem
From:       Urban Hafner <ruby-lists () web ! de>
Date:       2002-04-30 19:41:38
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Matthew PATTISON <mfp@students.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
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> e.g. Ruby seems to wait a long time before gets() returns, even when there's 
> stuff waiting on the socket. I've tried setting $/ = "\r\f" but that didn't
> work - my script just hung. Any ideas? Is $/ the right variable to
> set so that socket.gets will look for a different line separator?

Hm, AFAIK Windows uses \r\n. Maybe that will work as $/

Urban

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