From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2006-07-16T22:48:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question on an I/O loop

>>>>> "J" == Jay Daniels <jkdaniels@rock.com> writes:

J> and the next three (unread) bytes in the file are: 1A C0 B5
                                                      ^^^
moulon% /usr/bin/ruby -e 'p "%c" % 0x1A'
"\032"
moulon% 


 it's Control-Z, use "rb" to open the file


p.s.:

moulon% ruby -e 'p "%c" % 0x1A'
-e:1: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.0 (2006-07-14) [i686-linux]

Aborted
moulon% 


Guy Decoux