From: ts Date: 2001-03-09T20:43:57+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:12322] Re: Reading a binary file / writing binary data to a file >>>>> "P" == Paul Pladijs writes: Try in binary mode P> File.open ("binaryfile.dat", "r") { |f| File.open ("binaryfile.dat", "rb") { |f| P> while ch = f.getc P> puts "read a character: #{ch}" P> end P> } Guy Decoux