From: colotechpro@... (John Reed) Date: 2004-11-23T13:03:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Windows - calling system with multiple parms > p [@@gsdir, @@gsfontdir, @@prttxt] > > I expect all of those to be nil or empty strings. I can't tell you how > to fix that without having the source code of your application. Ah, if only it were that easy. I do a "puts" of those variables before the system call and they are properly populated. I still don't get why it worked with 1.6.8 and not 1.8.1...doesn't make sense to me. John Reed