From: Anthony Cagle <anthony@...>
Date: 2002-02-26T10:10:45+09:00
Subject: Kernel.system incongurity - Windows98

Pardon me for sending this twice, for some reason the subject was wrong the 
first time.

Windows98  Ruby 1.65

The following �fragment is supposed to open the web browser and display a web 
page:
 
system("rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler http://www.subimo.com")
 print $?
 print "\n"
 system("rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler 
http://www2.subimo.com/start?userid=acc")
 print $?
 print "\n"
 
Instead, the first system command succeeds while the second gets a return 
code of 32512.
 
Both commands work as expectdr from the MS-DOS commandline.
 
My guess is that it's some kind of command-expansion bug, but I've tried 
seperating the elements without success. �Has anyone else already figured 
this out? I'm baffled and just looking for a workaround since this was 
supposed to be a thirty minute project. to display a bunch of web pages and 
verify that they look OK.
 Thanks,
 Anthony