On 3/26/09, Marc Ch <wooingruby / gmail.com> wrote:
> I did find, thanks to David's blog, that I can start it up without OLE
> using system('iexpress') but I haven't yet been able to succesfully make
> use of the defined command line options with that.

Kernel#system works the same on windows and unix. Command line options
are given after the name of the program you want to run, separated by
a space. So, to start iexpress in quiet mode, try system('iexpress
/Q'). Alternately, you can pass each option in a separate string:
system('iexpress','/Q','/R:A') starts it in quiet mode and forces a
restart when iexpress exits.