Update below...

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Niklas Backlund <d99-nba / nada.kth.se>
> >
> > I'm reading The Book, and I was trying out %x{dir} et al on
> > page 75... but all I get is:
> >
> >    test.rb:1: command not found: dir
...
> > I also tried to use IO.popen -- Same deal!
> >
> > I'm running
> >
> >    ruby 1.6.2 (2000-11-04) [i386-cygwin]
> >
> > under Win98... Any ideas?
...
> Windows/DOS isn't UNIX, of course. The command
> "dir" is not an executable, but a built-in to the shell.
> I have a vague memory in the COMMAND.COM
> days of using a string like "command /c dir" from
> within a C program. I think it's called CMD.EXE
> nowadays; I tried something similar a day or two ago,
> but with no luck.

Nope, didn't work that way either... But here something else:

I tried it on my laptop, which is running Win95 and

   ruby 1.6.2 (2000-10-11) [i386-mingw32]

and everything works just like it should, i e %x{dir},
IO.popen("dir") ... !!

Question is, is it the Ruby version or the Windows version
that causes the problem?

Note that I'm running cygwin version on this box and mingw32
on the laptop.

???

/Niklas