Hi, From: "nkb" <nkb / pacific.net.sg> > > With ruby, I typed > ruby mytestscript.rb > output.txt > > The result still prints out to the standard microsoft commandline > console output and not to the file output.txt. How can I achieve the > output to a text file? That's odd.... Which version of windows are you running? On my win2k box, ruby -e "puts 'hi'" > zz ...creates a file called "zz" with "hi\n" in it as expected. Regards, Bill