From: Steve Tuckner Date: 2002-02-27T07:11:58+09:00 Subject: RE: Kernel.system incongurity - Windows98 Andy, Can this be made a standard part of the Windows installation? It certainly is standard on my machine. Without it, running system on Windows is just about unusuable. Steve Tuckner -----Original Message----- From: Morris, Chris [mailto:chris.morris@snelling.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:56 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: RE: Kernel.system incongurity - Windows98 > 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" Not sure if this will help, but you might try replacing the system call as mentioned here: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/10006 Chris