From: Nobuyoshi Nakada Date: 2007-01-28T16:04:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Backticks failing in Ruby built with VC++ 8 Hi, At Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:14:14 +0900, Daniel Berger wrote in [ruby-talk:236504]: > > Isn't pwd a shell builtin on WinXP? > Yes. Is that significant? Really? C:\Documents and Settings\nobu>us Active code page: 437 C:\Documents and Settings\nobu>ver Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] C:\Documents and Settings\nobu>pwd 'pwd' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. -- Nobu Nakada