Yes, 1.8.2 seems to fix all segfault problems with win32ole.  Older 
versions of win32ole have confirmed bugs, but the one that comes with 
1.8.2 has never thrown a segfault on me.

Brian


WayneFChin / gmail.com wrote:

>Jim,
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>I had problems writing to large ranges in Excel sheets, but I "solved"
>the problems by moving to this version of Ruby:
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>ruby 1.8.2 (2004-06-29) [i386-mswin32]
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>The version's from the Windows one-click installer, and it includes a
>version of win32ole.so that worked well with Excel. I haven't used the
>latest and greatest one-click installer yet, because I have too many
>users of the above version. I know, though, that the newest one handles
>large writes very well (I wanted to test the latest one-click
>installer.)
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>So, try using the latest one-click installer to see if it solves your
>reading problems. Or you can grab the win32ole.so from the one-click
>installer, and plop it into your existing Ruby installation.
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>--Wayne
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