schneik / us.ibm.com wrote: > [... snip] > > Thanks Dave and Michel and Gotoken--hope this tip ends up in the Ruby FAQ. > > Another bit of information that may help out others is that the Ruby xmp > library is something you have to get from the RAA [... snip] Um ... as it seems to be my lot in life to ask all the stupid questions, is there a recommended place to put added libraries? The $: variable isn't mentioned in the FAQ or the user's guide but I just now ran across it in the language ref. So I'm guessing (from running ruby -e 'p $:') one puts xmp.rb into /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby, is that it? Mark