On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:16:06AM +0900, HarryO wrote: > Sorry, I should have mentioned that, in case you didn't guess, these > machines are running Linux. hate to discourage you from writing Ruby, but have you tried VNC's cross-machine clipboard thingie? if you hit F8 in a VNC viewer, there are two options, "clipboard local -> remote" and "clipboard remote -> local" that might work for you -- You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike.