Dean Wampler wrote: > When you say "truncated near the end", is that the last line of text > that gets chopped? Last 1 or few characters? No, it's the last page or so of text that gets truncated, in the middle of paragraphs. > Does the C program close > all open file handles, etc.? AFAIK. I didn't write it. But it works fine with everything else besides Ruby. > Also, what platform are you on? Redhat FC4 Joe > > dean > > -- > Dean Wampler > http://www.aspectprogramming.com > http://www.newaspects.com > http://www.contract4j.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.