From: Tom Sawyer Date: 2003-01-04T05:08:30+09:00 Subject: Re: dump depth argument > dump( anObject [, anIO [, limit=1 ] ] ) > > what am i missing? found this: |@encoded = [Marshal.dump(@decoded, depth)].pack("m") | |doesn't work, the second param needs to be type IO Hmm, I designed this to work. And works fine on my box. The only limitation I can think of is depth must be a Fixnum. matz. seems that's not the only limitation. and OUCH, that stops me cold. is there any work around? -transami