From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-05-10T09:59:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14929] Re: backquote and system on windows

Joel VanderWerf <jskeeler@pacbell.net> writes:

>   ruby -e 'print `echo "foo"`'

I'm not a Windows expert, but I suspect that 'echo' is built into
CMD.EXE, and it not a separate command. Try

    print `cmd /c echo foo`


Regards

Dave