From Mauricio Fernandez wrote: # > Does the C:\Documents and Settings\pe?aijm directory exist? # > (maybe a problem with the e?e?) the dir exist. i'll have to check w the e?e later when i'm back home. Btw, the other windows pc here i'm using works fine though using the -b option, BUT if fails using -B option. <snip> Indexing RI docs for win32console-1.0.8-i386 version mswin32. Indexing RI docs for windows-pr version 0.6.2. c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/bin/fastri-server:71: [BUG ] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32] This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. C:\Documents and Settings\pe?aijm> I also notice i'm using an unpatched ruby ver. Maybe i'll have to update that too? I'll check the other env vars you mentioned too. From: Daniel Berger [mailto:djberg96 / gmail.com] # That would be my guess. Does this code snippet work or raise an # error? # # Dir.entries(" C:\Documents and Settings") that errs. I had to put double "\\", so Dir.entries("C:\\Documents and Settings") worked. thanks and kind regards -botp