From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T16:32:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Backticks failing in Ruby built with VC++ 8

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> 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.
> 

Oh, you're right (I got it from Unix Utils). But, it doesn't matter. It 
happens with any command. I tried 'dir', 'path', etc.

Regards,

Dan