From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2002-01-04T17:52:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30190] Re: Should the windows installation package be mswin32, instead of cygwin?

to avoid too much \ try to use single quote when building the
command.
Benoit
"Le Wang" <lewang@?(nospam)?.bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:dkr43ug452upvvd8vcb7skfuokd30l89du@4ax.com...
> oops, in light of the quadruple backslashes solution, maybe cygwin is
> fine.  : )
>
> I think this is actually in the pickaxe book, I just forgot about it.
>
> One thousand apologies.
>
> -lw
>
>
> On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 02:00:01 GMT, Le Wang
> <lewang@?(nospam)?.bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I just spent about 20 min trying to troubleshoot Benoit Cerrina's
> >problem with xcopy and windows (see: 'Execing commands with
> >backquotes' thread).  It turned out that the cygwin release had
> >trouble interacting with native windows commands.
> >
> >Now my question is this:  if the the installable executable is geared
> >towards newbies who are more accustomed to the windows way of doing
> >things, should it not include the mswin32 release instead of the
> >cygwin release?
> >
> >Perhaps some of the contents of the pickaxe book is predicated on the
> >cygwin release, so maybe it could be offered in parallel...(but that
> >would be confusing to a newbie too).
> >
> >Just my $0.02
> >
> >-lw
>