>>>>> "B" == BH <- Brad Coish <BCoish / Dymaxion.com>> writes: B> NOTE: Ruby for Windows test is 1.6.8 and ruby on OpenVMS is 1.8.1 ^^^^^ ^^^^^ This is important svg% ./ruby -vrsocket -e 'p Socket.gethostbyname("ruby-lang.org")' ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i686-linux] ["helium.ruby-lang.org", [], 2, "\322\373y\326"] svg% svg% ./ruby -vrsocket -e 'p Socket.gethostbyname("ruby-lang.org")' ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux] ["helium.ruby-lang.org", [], 2, "\002\000\000\000\322\373y\326\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000"] svg% Guy Decoux