Yeah and what if I want to run it on M$ ? I don't think a fork will do there - spoon would be beter :-) B. On 18.01.2001 08:55:00 AM xm wrote: >Yeah ... learn UNIX. It's fork-exec stuff. >First, you fork current process which makes a copy of your process in >memory. >Then, for one of you processes (for which fork() returned 0), you call exec. >Also, when using ruby, threads are a more viable option sometimes. They are >faster to start, and easier to interact and control. > >Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov aka onyXMaster >X-Infinity software (www.x-infinity.ru) >ICQ: 36987938 >