From: Robert Evans <robert.evans@...>
Date: 2005-10-19T16:38:43+09:00
Subject: Byte order reading on windows versus unix in ruby

I have written some code that reads bytes from a file in bigendian  
order (the file was written in big-endian order). It works fine on  
unix, but on windows it dies when it encounters 1a, also known as 26  
also known as ctrl-z also known as an eof character in dos. This  
causes the read to stop. Is this a known bug? Is something else going  
on here?

Thanks in advance,
Bob Evans