From: "Bernard Delm馥" Date: 2001-04-20T06:10:04+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:13892] Re: EBADF on Windows > I also found that %* works like $* in unix shells. Not on Win9x, I'm afraid (I think it's an NT/2000 extension) On the other hand, the batch file can portably be reduced to a one-liner: @ruby.exe mytest.rb %1 %2 %3 %4 %5