From: "matt.smillie@..." Date: 2006-02-22T05:38:30+09:00 Subject: Re: system() help Look up 'open3' in the standard library: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open3/rdoc/index.html require "open3" stdin, stdout, stderr = Open3.popen3('man ruby') (You don't have to use stdin if you don't want to)