From: Wybo Dekker <wybo@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T15:57:58+09:00
Subject: Re: reading binary from STDIN in windows

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Shashank Date wrote:

> Try this:
> 
> ruby -e 'STDIN.binmode;i=STDIN.read;
> open("test.pdf","wb").write(i)' < some.pdf
> 
> Notice how binmode sets the binary mode.

that works, thanks! 
(I had been scanning STDIN's available methods but missed it...)

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Wybo