From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2006-04-05T07:29:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Using File.open block to manage svnadmin dump stream


On Apr 4, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Brad C. wrote:
> Well, I tried this to no avail (I assume this is using a binary mode
> file):
>
> File.open("c:/testrb.txt","w") do |f|
>   f.binmode # I'm not really sure if this puts f in binary mode or  
> not.
>   f << "Test"
> end

I should have posted an example.  Your code is opening the file in text
mode.  You have to add a 'b' to the mode argument of open to force the
file to be opened in binary mode:


File.open("c:/testrb.txt","wb") do |f|
   # write data here via the File object f
end



Gary Wright