From: John Carter <john.carter / tait.co.nz>
Subject: [ruby-talk:24617] Re: system('dir') and Windows 2000
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:18:54 +0900

> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Armin Roehrl wrote:
> 
> > try "cmd /c dir"
> 
> Tried system( 'cmd/c dir') and got nowhere.

On cygwin I got

  system("cmd /c dir") # works fine
  system("cmd/c dir")  # doesn't work

-- Gotoken