I've never used Ruby before but need to try something tonight for sorta presentation tomorrow. The extent of my Ruby code is inside of RPG Maker XP (last minute thing had like 1 day to show my idea) and when someone walks over a certain tile it executes result = `notepad.exe` That's it. Problem is RPG Maker then times out if I don't immediately close the notepad window. Is there any way to execute notepad.exe without actually expecting a result back? Just launch and forget about it? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.