Clemens reported:
> under W2K the ARGV array does not include the command 
> parameters (same program under Solaris works just fine)? 

Quite possible that there's some problems, but I can't see any:

On linux:

  $ ruby -v
  ruby 1.6.2 (2000-10-16) [i686-linux]
  $ ruby -e'p ARGV' -- --foo arg1 arg 2 --bar
  ["--foo", "arg1", "arg", "2", "--bar"]

On W2K:

  Z:\>ruby -v
  ruby 1.6.2 (2000-10-11) [i386-cygwin]
  Z:\>ruby -e'p ARGV' -- --foo arg1 arg 2 --bar
  ["--foo", "arg1", "arg", "2", "--bar"]

It might help others if you tell the exact version of your Ruby on W2K. Is
it the one installed from the kit?

	- Aleksi