From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2005-10-26T00:22:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby gives different answer for checksum of files on windows and FreeBSD?

"Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > In message "Re: ruby gives different answer for checksum of files on windows and FreeBSD?"
> >    on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:02 +0900, Ralph Smith <ralph@lkjlkj.com> writes:
> >
> > |f = File.new(fname)
> >
> > Try
> >
> >  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?

I'm guessing here, but my guess is that reading text files with ruby
is more common than non-text files.  Does "rb" affect that?

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