From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@...>
Date: 2004-11-21T07:41:04+09:00
Subject: Having Ruby 1.8 decide on "File.open" or 'IO.popen'?

Hi!

To write to (mbox) file I use "File.open('/var/spool/mail/jupp')". To
write to a (MDA) stream I would use "File.popen('/usr/bin/fetchmail')".
Is there an *existing* means that I can use for both purposes so that I
can code as follows?

SomeClass.open('/var/spool/mail/jupp')
SomeClass.open('| /usr/bin/fetchmail')

Or is there good reason *not* to do that?

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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