From: thefed Date: 2008-01-08T06:07:27+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby's Kernel::exec (and system and %x) On Jan 7, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Todd Benson wrote: > I might not be understanding your situation, but on my windows system, > this works fine... The problem is that `` and system() make calls to the shell. He is trying to NOT have a call to a shell.