I now have - thanks to the help of many readers of this mailing list - installed Ruby 1.8.5 and gem 0.9.3 for both Cygwin and Windows. Under Cygwin, however, ruby doesn't seem to make use of the installed gems: ~/tmp $ ruby -rubygem t2.rb ruby: no such file to load -- ubygem (LoadError) Under pure Windows, it works fine. Any idea why this happens? Note that under Cygwin, I use the Ruby version which I can load via the Cygwin setup program. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer / venyon.com> Phone: +49-89-452133-162