From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-20T23:26:28+09:00
Subject: Re: piping input when shelling out

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, x1 wrote:

> Is Open4 not win32 compatable? With all win32ole hooks, I'm suprised
> no one has tackled this yet.
>
> Ara, you helped me a while back with spawning processes in win32,
> catching pids and error levels.
>
> --just assumed if I could install it as a gem, it would work.

ah.  no - it is not.

popen, or something out of the win32 project, it is then.

there is also this

   http://popen4.rubyforge.org/

which i haven't tried.

regards.


-a
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