From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-11-21T09:47:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6478] Re: %x{...} and ` not working?

"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

> >    test.rb:1: command not found: dir

Under NT, %x{cmd /c dir} works.

The reason is that some DOS commands (such as 'dir' are implemented
within the command interpreter, rather than as external programs.

Regards


Dave