From: Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>
Date: 2003-08-19T17:23:17+09:00
Subject: Re: How to open a file in windows

Dan Doel wrote:

> `start <filename>`
> 
> Also works on Windows XP (just checked).
> 
> `<filename>` doesn't (although I thought it would).

I use:

module Win32

	def Win32.start(file, *args)
		cmd = "\"#{file}\" " + \
			(args.collect {|x| "\"#{x}\""}.join ' ')
		puts cmd
		system('start "" ' + cmd)
	end
	
	def Win32.run(file, *args)
		cmd = "\"#{file}\" " + \
			(args.collect {|x| "\"#{x}\""}.join ' ')
		puts cmd
		system(cmd)
	end

end

start() is for opening documents and GUI programs, run() is for console 
programs (so that I can get their output in the console).

// Niklas