From: Erik Veenstra Date: 2006-01-10T05:53:01+09:00 Subject: Re: IO vs. File > ..., shows IO.read, yet the page on the File class does not > have a File.read. File::read doesn't exist. IO::read does. But since File is a subclass of IO, you can do File::read, which actually is IO::read. > Also, there doesn't appear a similarly simple File.write that > does all the dirty work for you. True. gegroet, Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/