From: "Carlos J. Hernandez" Date: 2008-01-08T14:09:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Marshal Pipe Eric, thanks for your comment. I'll look again, but I don't think I saw in DRb the simplicity achieved by bash as in: cat source.txt | filter | sort > result.txt I'm saying cat, filter, and sort could be ruby programs piping Marshal data structures. -Carlos