...hmmm.
looks like the "problem" only shows up when launching a ruby program
through its file extension: 
  z:\>test.rb foo bar

foo and bar are not seen!
The file extension-association seems to be ok, i.e:
    	.rb -> D:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe %1
Clemens

Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela / cinnober.com> wrote in
<E536C8EE2A1FD31195370008C79FFA1F232214 / world.cinnober.com>: 

>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
>