From: "Glenn M. Lewis" <noSpam@...>
Date: 2006-09-19T12:46:20+09:00
Subject: Binary-file module?  (also, rubychess)

In Ruby, do we have a module that makes reading/parsing/writing
binary files super-easy?

I've been reading Practical Common Lisp (ISBN 1-59059-239-5)
(also available online: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book ) and Chapter 24
has a really nice package for handling binary files.

Before I spend the time porting it to Ruby, I was curious if
anyone knows of anything similar for Ruby?  Google "ruby parse binary
files" didn't come up with anything of interest.

Oh, and just as a teaser... I've been porting pythonchess-0.6
to Ruby and barring any unforeseen difficulties, it should be finished
in about another week or two.  I'll probably open up a Rubyforge project
and put it in there so others can play with it.

-- Glenn Lewis