From: WayneFChin@...
Date: 2004-11-03T04:23:48+09:00
Subject: Re: segfault in win32ole

Jim,

I had problems writing to large ranges in Excel sheets, but I "solved"
the problems by moving to this version of Ruby:

ruby 1.8.2 (2004-06-29) [i386-mswin32]

The version's from the Windows one-click installer, and it includes a
version of win32ole.so that worked well with Excel. I haven't used the
latest and greatest one-click installer yet, because I have too many
users of the above version. I know, though, that the newest one handles
large writes very well (I wanted to test the latest one-click
installer.)

So, try using the latest one-click installer to see if it solves your
reading problems. Or you can grab the win32ole.so from the one-click
installer, and plop it into your existing Ruby installation.

--Wayne