From: Bob Calco <rcalco@...>
Date: 2001-12-01T03:48:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27107] FW:  Kernel::system() not working

Anybody have any idea? This is a showstopper for me, simple as it seems. I
cannot seem to start up a windows exe using system anymore, it worked find
yesterday, today it does not.

I have tried different windows programs, and they all fail with error code
32512. I cannot seem to figure out what's changed that makes the system()
calls not work now, on either my laptop or desktop.

Any clues about what I might be doing wrong?

Sincerely

Bob Calco

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Calco [mailto:rcalco@cortechs.com]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 12:07 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: [ruby-talk:27089] Kernel::system() not working


Yesderday, this worked:

cmd = "C:\\Program Files\\Some Company\\Some Program\\Prog.exe"
system(cmd)

Today, it does not. $? shows error code 32512.

Mind you, at the command line, this works:

"C:\Program Files\Some Company\Some Program\Prog.exe"

So does a shortcut on my desktop with the same.

And test(?e,cmd) returns

true

Other things like

system("cl")

and

system("echo *")

work...

So -- any ideas what happened??? Like I said, yesderday, that cmd worked.

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