On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 14:09, STEPHEN BECKER I V wrote: > Is there away to increase the allowed space for the stack info? > I want to print out ever permutation of the alphabet. I know it > sounds crazy, but i want to. > > is my code, it should print out all aaaaa,aaaab,aaaac.... Why not something like: (1..6).each { |n| (('a'*n)..('z'*n)).each { |s| print s,"\n" } } Although, if you are using this to tell people about the amazingly low mortgage rates you might try: (1..6).each { |n| (('a'*n)..('z'*n)).each { |s| print s,"\n" unless s == 'markus'} } instead. -- MarkusQ