From: Niklas Backlund Date: 2000-11-21T08:29:42+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:6476] %x{...} and ` not working? Hi, I'm reading The Book, and I was trying out %x{dir} et al on page 75... but all I get is: test.rb:1: command not found: dir I tried the backquote operator, other DOS commands... Nothing worked! I also tried to use IO.popen -- Same deal! I'm running ruby 1.6.2 (2000-11-04) [i386-cygwin] under Win98... Any ideas? /Niklas