From: ruby talk <rubytalk@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T00:48:22+09:00
Subject: Re: binary reading

10000010 65 01000010 66  

the output is still wrong 
I also tried adding a.binmode no luck.
Will i also have such a problem writing a binary file?
Becker


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:39:42 +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng
<hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> What about  (written as if it were a patch):
> 
> - a=File.open("c:\\1.txt")
> + a=File.open("c:\\1.txt", 'rb')
>    a.each_byte { |byte|
> -      print byte.to_s.unpack('b8'),' ',byte,' '
> +      print byte.chr.unpack('b8'),' ',byte,' '
>    }
> 
> 
>          Hugh
> 
>