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Has anyone here used Ruby?
Grace Hopper once said "it's easier to get forgiveness than to ask permission". Use Ruby anyway and tell management later. For the time being keep it up your sleeve as a personal secret weapon. -
Run external program
Sounds like you need to use the (kernel) function system(). You pass the name of the external program to run and any arguments you want to pass to it:- System("program", "directoryname")
