From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-28T12:45:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8156] Re: Kernel#system() questions

"John Small" <jsmall@laser.net> writes:

> (I'm writing a cron.rb for windows using Ruby 1.6.2 compiled
> for NT using VC++.)
> 
> Problem 1.  
> 
> I notice that if I use the "start" command inside system() it
> returns false:
> 
>         system('start myBatchJob.bat')  =>  false

Is 'start' built into  cmd.exe? If so, you may need to run

       cmd /c start ...

Dave (who knows _nothing_ about NT)