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>
next prev parent 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
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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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