From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-09-06T16:53:26+09:00
Subject: Re: running ruby

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:19:31 +0900,
> Alex Young wrote in [ruby-talk:267699]:
>> I was thinking more along the lines of control codes.  You can run 
>> "color 70" at the command prompt, and that'll invert the colours 
>> (documented here: 
>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/cmd.mspx?mfr=true)
>> but I can't think how to do that from within a script running under that 
>> shell.
> 
> system("color 70")
> 
And there's me thinking that wouldn't work because it would execute in a 
subshell...  I guess I should try these things before writing them off :-)

-- 
Alex