From: Henrik Horneber <ryco@...>
Date: 2004-12-15T21:44:53+09:00
Subject: Re: File#each_byte returns only the first 300 bytes

Niko Schwarz wrote:
> Hello, I have the most recent (rc10) version of rubyinstaller for
> windows.
> everything works fine, except this:
> read_bytes returns in text files everything, but in binary files, only
> the first 300 bytes.
> the snippet i use is
> 
>   s = 0
>   File.open(fileName) { |f|
>     f.each_byte { |ch|
>       ch > 127 or (fh[ch] += 1 and s += 1)
>     }
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Is it a bug? (hard to believe in such a basic
> function).

I seem to remember you need to tell Ruby to open files in binary modes 
on Windows , e.g.
File.open(fileName, "rb")

HTH

Henrik