Wyss Clemens wrote: > I had to copy over the cygwin sh.exe into the Ruby bin directory and all > commands worked as expected. Now this was with the cygwin Ruby build, but I > expect, that the sh.exe also "heals" the mswin Ruby build (see below). > > Anybody volunteers to give the "sh.exe" a try? If cygwin is not (yet) Well, I do. Seems as if that would get me going on my Win2K and/or Win98 box. > installed on your win98/95 box I could send you the binary (and the > cygwin.dll's). As the win32-build has it's own popen-command which > definitely makes use of the COMSPEC (see win32/win32.c) environment > variable, you would have to "set COMSPEC=c:\cygwin\sh.exe" > > Regards > Clemens > It would be kind if you send me those files. Thanks & happy rubying! Stephan