From: John Carter Date: 2003-07-30T11:36:20+09:00 Subject: Rule of Thumb for the Day.... If you ever find yourself..... * Writing or invoking a deep copy method or... * Writing a whole lot of stuff to a file or pipe to be read by another ruby script that promptly reads it all in again. ...ask yourself, "Do I really want to do this, or do I mean 'fork'?" John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz New Zealand A Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on your system.