You know you might even be able to fix this by removing the ruby scripts if you need to. Jaws does not lock up I am betting they used to have to silent Jaws when you run ruby open book. Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 8:24 AM To: programmingblind Subject: Fix for console mode Ruby Ruby for Windows http://RubyInstaller.org has a console and GUI mode version of the interpreter, ruby.exe and rubyw.exe, respectively. Due to an apparent JAWS bug, the console version locks up when run with JAWS at a command prompt. This does not happen with Window-Eyes or NVDA. I found a work-around by running a batch file instead of the executable directly. It is called rubyc.bat (a suffix of c as opposed to w). The content is simply the following: @echo off ruby.exe %* You can copy rubyc.bat to the same bin subdirectory where ruby.exe, rubyw.exe, irb.bat, and gem.bat reside. I have now also included the file in the archive of the Ruby fruit basket program http://EmpowermentZone.com/rb_fruit.zip If anyone figures out a way to fix JAWS so this is not necessary, I am still interested in that, too. Jamal __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind