From: Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T00:41:39+09:00
Subject: Re: spawning processes from Ruby/TK

Hi, 

From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@avaya.com>
Subject: spawning processes from Ruby/TK
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:22:01 +0900
Message-ID: <338366A6D2E2CA4C9DAEAE652E12A1DE166D57@au3010avexu1.global.avaya.com>
> I need to launch an external process from a Tk app. I have a list-box of
> file names that should be processes as follows:
> 
>     listbox.bind('Double-Button-1') {
>         file = listbox.get(listbox.curselection)
>         errors += `#{cmd % [file]}`
>     }
> 
> This causes a repeated error message:

Which version of Ruby do you use? 
If you use 1.6.x, the problem maybe fixed on more recent versions.
On my linux environment, 1.6.7 freezes and CVS Head completes properly. 
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                                  Hidetoshi NAGAI (nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp)