def viewgemspecdata 
        require 'fileutils'
        $currentgemspectext = "%s" % [@a_viewgemspecdata]
	      
        begin # exception trapped block
         
         Dir.chdir($progdir)
	      filegemspec = $gemspec_directory + "/" + $currentgemspectext + ".gemspec"
        
	      fd = File.open(filegemspec,"r")
	      @viewgemspecdatadisplay = " "
	      while ! fd.eof?
	        @viewgemspecdatadisplay = fd.read
	      end
        fd.close
        rescue SystemCallError, StandardError
            $stderr.print "system call error: " + $!
        end # exception rescue

  end