From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-10-14T17:59:42+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems Beta 0.9.4.5

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:16:12 +0900,
> Eric Hodel wrote in [ruby-talk:273978]:
>> Also, what versions of Windows does %* work on?  I see that setup.rb  
>> is still using "%1 %2 ... %9" when it installs "gem.cmd".
> 
> %* works with cmd.exe, and .cmd files also require cmd.exe.
> The reason of setup.rb is it has supported pre-NT system,
> i.e. Windows 9X, too.
> 

This page may be useful:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/percent.mspx?mfr=true

Regards,

Dan