Reformatted excerpts from John Bent's message of 2008-01-30:
> I wonder if the problem is that system isn't correctly understanding
> the return value from open?
Try with irb:
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> system "ls"
[...]
=> true
irb(main):002:0> system "asdfasdfa"
=> false
What happens with open?
> hmmm, I would think 0 is the expected success value? How could I reverse
> true and false? I'm curious to try that but
> ! $?.success?
This one should work.
As a sanity check:
system "open '#{filename}'"
true
Should always count as a success. Is that true?
--
William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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