From: Chris Kottom <chris@...>
Date: 2011-02-17T18:29:17+09:00
Subject: Re: system firefox returns false. Why?

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I'm not on a Windows machine, so I can't replicate, but system should return
false if the command exits with a non-zero status.  Maybe it's a problem
internal to Firefox on Win?  Seems to work as expected on Linux FWIW.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:55 AM, zak <u.gotzes@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> Nothing happens typing the following:
>
> C:\>irb
> irb(main):001:0> system "firefox.exe"
> => false
> irb(main):002:0> exit
>
>
> while this command opens firefox:
> C:\>firefox.exe
>
> C:\>
>
> how comes? any ideas?
> Thanks
>
>

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