From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-06-22T05:47:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling Ruby from within Ruby under Windows

Hi,

At Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:56:49 +0900,
Ronald Fischer wrote in [ruby-talk:256378]:
> I get the error message:
> 
> H:/tmp/x.rb:1:in ``': Exec format error - t2.rb (Errno::ENOEXEC)
>         from H:/tmp/x.rb:1
> 
> Is this a bug or intended behaviour?

Not a bug.  Cmd.exe uses ShellExecute or similar, which see the
association.  You may want to say, "then use it in ruby too",
but no.  It doesn't handle redirection.

Once I had tried changing to see the association, it was very
tiresome and others didn't seem to like to merge it.

-- 
Nobu Nakada