From: Daniel Harple Date: 2006-03-30T01:39:42+09:00 Subject: Re: reading/writing binary problem On Mar 29, 2006, at 6:31 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: > open(path){|f| f.seek(13312); f.read(1024*1024*2)} If you are using Windows don't forget to open it in binary mode: open(..., 'rb') ... -- Daniel