From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2005-10-26T00:21:40+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby gives different answer for checksum of files on windows and FreeBSD? Hi, In message "Re: ruby gives different answer for checksum of files on windows and FreeBSD?" on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:21:21 +0900, "Ara.T.Howard" writes: |> f = File.new(fname, "rb") |> |> and see how it works. | |this comes up so often - would it make sense to be the default mode on |windows? Unless your program communicates with other programs on Windows, that use text-mode. matz.