From: Michael campbell Date: 2004-04-04T11:16:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Seeking simple way to make foo.rb executable on Windows (e.g. !bin/sh...) Its Me wrote: > On unix I could put some shell prefix at the front of a file and make a > FOO.rb file directly executable. Not to be a pedant, but in unix you still need to chmod it executable; simply having the #! in the file did not make it directly executable.