Thanks for the suggestions. On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Armin Roehrl wrote: > Be lazy & why don't you call an external program like display or xv > to display the jpeg image from your ruby prg,? > (or convert the images into gifs?) Yes, I have thought about this, and have even written a simple app. But I don't know how to kill xv automatically after getting rotate response from the commandline. ....Maybe putting the system command in a thread would do it? Jim ========================================================= Jim Freeze jim / freeze.org --------------------------------------------------------- No comment at this time. http://www.freeze.org =========================================================