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From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:26:03 -0800
Subject: [sup-talk] missing run-mailcap
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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?

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William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>