I've been reading about DRb from several sources including the documentation at the beginning of drb.rb. I'm troubled by the mechanism for passing objects by reference instead of by value. From what I've read you have to add "include DRb::DRbUndumped" to the class of the objects being passed. What if I want to pass some objects of that type by reference and others by value? -- R. Mark Volkmann Partner, Object Computing, Inc.