From: Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@...>
Date: 2005-04-12T22:48:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Force newline only on Windows

Steve V wrote:
> How can I force \n in my strings to be *only* a newline character and not a
> carriage return/newline combination on Windows?

Use "binary" mode when opening your file, or invoke the "binmode" method 
on your IO object.

   File.open("x.txt", "wb") do |file|
     file.print "\n"
   end

On Windows, x.txt will contain only "\n".  If you leave out the "b", you 
will get "\r\n" instead.

   STDOUT.binmode
   print "\n"

This will make the same change to stdout.

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