Hi, At Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:53:26 +0900, Alex Young wrote in [ruby-talk:267858]: > > system("color 70") > > > And there's me thinking that wouldn't work because it would execute in a > subshell... I guess I should try these things before writing them off :-) I'd tried it on Windows XP Home. Since a console isn't a per-process resource, it works regardless which process did it. -- Nobu Nakada