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* Features of Ruby
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+ Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
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* How to get Ruby
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The Ruby distribution can be found on:
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+ * Ruby home-page
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+ The URL of the Ruby home-page is:
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* Mailing list
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There is a mailing list to talk about Ruby.
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in the mail body (not subject) to the address <ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org>.
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* How to compile and install
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This is what you need to do to compile and install Ruby:
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If you fail to compile ruby, please send the detailed error report with
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the error log and machine/OS type, to help others.
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- * Copying
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- Ruby is copyrighted free software by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@zetabits.com>.
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- You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL
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- (see COPYING file), or the conditions below:
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- software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the
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- original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
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