From: Paul Lutus Date: 2006-11-17T08:55:05+09:00 Subject: Re: popen, open3 problems Peter Schrammel wrote: / ... > pin.syswrite "set_var\n" > pin.syswrite "v=8\n" > #pin.close_write #<----------don't want to do this but have to! Have you tried "pin.flush" ? -- Paul Lutus http://www.arachnoid.com