comp.lang.ruby

Gyoung-Yoon Noh

7/3/2005 5:55:00 AM

On 7/3/05, Chuck Brotman <chuck.brotman@gmail.com> wrote:
> In IRB tips and tricks on rubygarden.org we are instructed to add some
> rubycode "to your ~/.irbc:".
>
> I searched my Harddrive and could find no file of that name nor directory ~,
> nor an ".irb.hist". I'm confused!
> What concept am I missing here?? Don't know if it matters, but I'm running
> on WinXP.
>

'~' is a synonym for $HOME in Unix(maybe shells?). $HOME is same as
%HOMEPATH% in Windows. But you can't create any filename starts with
'.' in explorer shell. So, open command prompt, cd %HOMEPATH%, and
rename it to .irbrc or 'copy con .irbrc'.

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