"Patrick Down" <pdown / austin.rr.com> writes: > This seems to be a problem in The TCPSocket object open method but > being completely new to ruby Can any tell me what I am doing wrong? Sockets are currently broken under Windows 2000 at least; they may be broken under all Win32 platforms, but I haven't heard any evidence either way. I'm just beginning to look at the code in question. If you have experience hacking Cygwin net code, you may wish to take a look yourself. -- Jonathan Feinberg jdf / pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY http://pobox.com/~jdf