From: "I. P." <stack.tcpip@...>
Date: 2007-03-04T23:32:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting applications from Ruby

Farrel Lifson DE I. P.

FL> Kernel#exec sounds like what you need.
This way produced the same result:
    exec "notepad result.txt"
- ruby.exe and notepad.exe were both present.

And this way worked just as I want:
    exec "start notepad result.txt"
- ruby.exe closed and notepad.exe is active

Thank you!

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I. P.     2007-03-04T17:01