From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-05-28T07:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby confused about current directory?

On May 27, 5:29 pm, Brian Hartin <brian.har...@pearson.com> wrote:
> Brian Hartin wrote:
> > Luis Lavena wrote:
> >> Your co-workers are using XP too?
>
> This is an environment issue, not a Ruby issue.  I have narrowed it down
> to the fact that cmd.exe is failing to inherit the current directory
> from the spawning process.  I'll post back if I find a solution.
>
> Thanks.

Question: are you using a custom console process? Like PowerShell/
Console or anything like that?

There was an old bug in Console two that confused cmd.exe not
expanding environment variables.

Also, check how cmd.exe is being started (which parameters like /V:ON
or /E:ON

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Luis Lavena