From: Steve Date: 2008-02-23T03:30:05+09:00 Subject: Sorry very newbie post! Ok so I just got myself Chris Pines book and started with the questions in it and the first short prog I type in SciTE is puts 'Hi, what\`s your first name? ' name = gets puts 'your name is ' + name save it and run and get a command box which waits for me to exit and then get the message H what\`s your first name? Exit code: -1073741510 eh??. Not looking good!. (Tried it with RDE and even the `i` was missing in that one?) . Chris wrote the book using Ruby version 1.8.2 and I`m using 186-26 which is probably where the fault lies anyone suggest me where I`m going wrong please? Thanks Steve