From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-07-03T20:37:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17182] Re: ` (back tick) on Win32 machines

Tobias Reif wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I don't understand that.
> 1. works, 2. and 3. don't (all saved as *.rb, and run from the
> commandline on win)
> 
> 1.
> system("start gimp")
> 
> 2.
> 'cmd /C "start gimp"'
> 
> 3.
> puts `cmd /C dir`


Seems like "cmd /C" only allows executing programs but not build-in
commands.


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