From: Alexey Verkhovsky Date: 2004-07-23T06:24:37+09:00 Subject: Re: [NUBY] Reading stderr, stdout and the exit status of a process > i don't know if what you want to do is possible on windows - any windows > experts out there? As far as I remember, NT and 2000 support POSIX calls, but XP doesn't (although there is a library that you can download, or you can have Cygwin, etc - not viable options for what I need to do). Looks like I'll have to use the file system, OS-360 style. Best regards, Alex