From: Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2001-01-23T09:51:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9742] Re: Workaround for Windows backquote problem

ptkwt@user2.teleport.com (Phil Tomson) wrote:
>
>First a little background:
>
>If you're running Ruby on Windows the following will not work:
>version = `ver`
>#or:
>dircontents = `dir` #of course there are better ways to do this anyway
>You get some error about the command not being found.
>[BTW: This isn't an issue on Perl, anybody know why? seems like we could
>get the same behaviour in Ruby.]
[...]

At one point what Perl did is use command.com on both
9x and NT.  This mostly worked, but with occasional
gotchas.  The strategy might have changed by now.

If you want a definitive answer I suggest sending
email to ActiveState.

Cheers,
Ben
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