[#6363] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

17 messages 2000/11/14
[#6367] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2000/11/14

Hello again --

[#6582] best way to interleaf arrays? — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hello --

15 messages 2000/11/26

[#6646] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

Ross asked something about widely known and largely ignored language (on

23 messages 2000/11/29
[#6652] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — rpmohn@... (Ross Mohn) 2000/11/29

aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com (Aleksi Niemel) wrote in

[#6723] Re: Array Intersect (&) question — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2000/12/01

> >Use a hash. Here's code to do both and more. It assumes that

[#6656] printing/accessing arrays and hashes — raja@... (Raja S.)

I'm coming to Ruby with a Python & Common Lisp background.

24 messages 2000/11/30

[ruby-talk:6483] Re: %x{...} and ` not working?

From: "Hee-Sob Park" <phasis@...>
Date: 2000-11-21 03:10:04 UTC
List: ruby-talk #6483
Hi,

"Niklas Backlund" <d99-nba@nada.kth.se> wrote in message
news:Pine.SOL.4.30.0011210014370.16999-100000@my.nada.kth.se...
> 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?
>

Insert 'command.com /c' before internal DOS command.

like

ruby -e "print %x{command.com /c dir}"


>
> /Niklas
>
>

Park, Hee-Sob




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