From: ts Date: 2003-04-05T23:27:25+09:00 Subject: Re: reading from $stdout ??? >>>>> "M" == Meinrad Recheis writes: M> what do you think about aliasing and overwriting all outputting methods M> in IO like puts, write, print and so on? would that affect really all M> output? I don't understand, sorry : you use system() this mean that the command is executed by the OS not by ruby; OS use fprintf(), etc not the ruby methods Guy Decoux