Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:24635] Re: ruby 1.6.5, irb $0" on 01/11/08, ts <decoux / moulon.inra.fr> writes: |P> irb(main):001:0> $0 |P> "\000V" | | Try this patch Oops, I forgot to backport this one to 1.6.x; thank you! matz.