From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-03-30T01:53:42+09:00
Subject: Re: reading/writing binary problem

Daniel Harple wrote:
> 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') ...

In fact I recommend to use that switch regardless of OS used: it's more 
portable and also serves as documentation hint that the file is actually 
  binary.

Kind regards

	robert