From: "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T05:04:51+09:00
Subject: RE: Other than fork, what is vc++ ruby win missing?

> popen works?

Yeup. I posted the output from Win95 at home last night to the thread you
started. Here's the output just now from Win 2000:

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>cd temp

C:\temp>copy con popen.rb
f = IO.popen("dir")
puts f.readlines
^Z
        1 file(s) copied.

C:\temp>popen.rb
 Volume in drive C is MS-DOS_6
 Volume Serial Number is BCBF-0F2A

 Directory of C:\temp

03/19/2002  02:01p      <DIR>          .
03/19/2002  02:01p      <DIR>          ..
11/27/2001  01:25p      <DIR>          10175.091
11/29/2001  10:59a      <DIR>          10175.092
11/27/2001  01:25p      <DIR>          10175.094
08/28/2001  10:55a              76,755 10175.094.out
...

Btw, it's indirect, but Open3.popen3 doesn't work, but it's because it uses
fork. 

Another note -- I read up on Rubicon, and the readme states they're working
on getting it running on Windows, but could use some help. That's a great
way to see what's really working and what's not.

Chris