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From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] missing run-mailcap
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:26:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201717294-sup-1892@south> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201715536-sup-6254@tangerine.lanl.gov>

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 <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-30 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-22 16:40 John Bent
2008-01-22 22:33 ` John Bent
2008-01-24 21:40   ` John Bent
2008-01-24 23:26     ` William Morgan
2008-01-24 23:52       ` John Bent
2008-01-25  0:17         ` William Morgan
2008-01-25  0:57           ` Grant Hollingworth
2008-01-25  4:40             ` John Bent
2008-01-26  0:35               ` John Bent
2008-01-30 17:29                 ` William Morgan
2008-01-30 17:54                   ` John Bent
2008-01-30 18:26                     ` William Morgan [this message]
2008-01-30 18:35                       ` John Bent
2008-02-03  3:01                         ` William Morgan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-04 23:45 Giorgio Lando
2008-01-04 23:59 ` Giorgio Lando
2008-01-05  0:13 ` William Morgan
2008-01-05  1:01   ` Giorgio Lando

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