From: Chris Hulan Date: 2010-02-25T22:51:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Launching a commamd prompt window from .rbw application HAve a look at http://whynotwiki.com/Ruby_/_Process_management which points to http://www.ruby-doc.org/ruby-1.9/classes/Open3.html Looks like the writer of the former was working on linux so there may be some gotchas on windows... Cheers