From: S Wayne <wrecklass1@...>
Date: 2006-07-16T16:35:10+09:00
Subject: Re: system() on windows

>
> If you want to catch all output including both STDOUT and STDERR you
> should do following trick
>
> output = `someprogram 2>&1`
>
> So using OS pipes you redirect STDERR to STDOUT and then run application
> and get STDOUT using `` function.

Except that the OP said he is on Windows, and unless he is using cygwin
to get bash/sh style redirection, that won't work. Starndard Error
isn't captured by any of the ruby IO/Exec processes that I can find.