From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T20:16:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with popen on windows

Kroeger Simon (ext) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i'm using ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] on win2000.
>
> When starting my GUI app with rubyw (because i don't like the empty
> window) there is another window poping up whenever i call popen. (or
> use backquotes to start another process)
>
> Using just ruby.exe all seems fine (except the initial nasty empty
> window)
>
> Someone knows a way around?

Untested: maybe you can change COMSPEC env var in your ruby script to
point to another binary that won't open a window before executing the new
process.  Another option might be to add a command line param to COMSPEC -
although I don't know whether that would work.

Kind regards

    robert