From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2004-07-23T11:08:37+09:00
Subject: Re: sysread and buffered I/O

In article <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407220742560.5080@harp.ngdc.noaa.gov>,
  "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@noaa.gov> writes:

>    IO.read
>
>      actively takes characters from IO until EOF is found
>
>    IO.receive
>
>      passively receives any waiting characters from IO

I see.

However, another problem is it is confusing with BasicSocket#recv.
-- 
Tanaka Akira