From: ts Date: 2002-06-26T22:34:31+09:00 Subject: Re: more annoying socket questions. >>>>> "F" == "Firestone, Mark <- Technical Support" > writes: F> How can I get my pages to work without the user having to do something at a F> prompt (like press return)? In Pascal, Wayne Conrad in his IO routines F> provided me with a way of telling if there was something in the buffer, and F> then reading it. Ruby doesn't seem to do this. Failing a way to handle F> that, is there any way round this? Try to use IO::select if you want to know if you can read from a IO Guy Decoux