From: Dan Connelly Date: 2012-06-18T10:21:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Transition to 1.9 - DL/CPtr issue Try #2 to post this.... hopefully no dup. pack("c") is for bytes (integers). pack("a") is for 0-terminated strings. Did you try pack("a*") ? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.