From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-11-21T14:28:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows - calling system with multiple parms

John Reed wrote:

> I'm having a problem getting a system call to Windows XP to work. I
> upgraded my Ruby from 1.6.8 to 1.8.1 recently.
> 
> system("dcpropgst.bat", [@@gsdir, @@gsfontdir, @@prttxt])

irb(main):011:0> system("ruby", "-v", "-c", "-e()")
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-16) [i386-mswin32]
Syntax OK

Does this not work for you?