Re: dsktool.rb and Ruby Questions

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Dec 4, 10:05 pm, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:

*snip*

> At this point I have some questions:
>
> 1. Is ruby destructive bloatware? Or is there someone in their right mind
> who would install over 21,000 files to run a program and then not be able to
> run it?
>
> 2.  Is it  irresponsible to suggest that the world at large who happen to be
> Windows users consider it and programs that run in it seriously?
>
> These are reasonable questions based on my experience so far.

-1 trollbait

> "jonnosan" <jonno...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> 15974ed8-7b02-4410-99f0-badc11f3a07a@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com">news:15974ed8-7b02-4410-99f0-badc11f3a07a@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
>
> >the last version of dsktool  (http://dsktool.jamtronix.com/) does support
> >formatting of and writing to CP/M disk images.
>
> But does ruby support Windows and does ruby support dsktool.rb I wonder?
>
> This might be the worst thing I have experienced my 30 years of computing
> next to things like a hard disk crash. I will recover without problems of
> course but would the average Windows user?
>
> Unless and until someone can tell me how to get this fixed quickly and
> without much effort on my part, I will consider proclaiming loudly and
> clearly on my website atwww.cpm8680.comand in fact at every opportunity
> the same accounting that I am sharing with you today.

I would suggest:

1. gem unpack dsktool-0.5.1.gem
2. cd dsktool-0.5.1/bin
3. ruby dsktool.rb
4. Chastise yourself for shooting your trap off before doing some
elementary research.

> Now if the problem is mine, which although possible, should have been
> experienced by others and noted very clearly, I will of course mention this
> as well. But I've got about 100 or so C compilers and the java run time and
> other stuff on here that all works. Even Apple Commander works:) MSys and
> MinGW work. Cygwin works. Qt works. I got compilers running in DosBox, Apple
> II, Apple GS, C64, C128, and Amiga emulators and a dog and a pony and they
> all work. I've got assemblers running on CP/M floppies, etc.etc. This
> program doesn't.

There does seem to be a problem with the dsktool gem. Have you sent
Jonno an email and asked ?

> And considering the initial effort to run dsktool.rb I think this is all an
> indefensible joke.

I certainly hope that you are. Petulance is a poor way of asking for
some help. I'm sure people would be happier to provide it if you'd at
least try to be polite and stop behaving like such a joke yourself.

Matt