From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-11-17T04:58:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25641] Re: Funky file.each_byte

On Friday 16 November 2001 10:48 am, Tyler wrote:
> Howdy!  I was filtering some files and ran into an anomaly.
> I'm running Ruby 1.6.4 on an old Windows machine. Everything
> was fine when I was manipulating bytes with getc/putc, but that
> seemed too C-ish, so I tried a tweak to a Ruby idiom. Imagine
> my surprise and delight to discover that a file with some bytes
> deleted was larger than the original file!  Ditto for reading.
>
>   count = 0
>   f = File.new( ARGV[0], "r")

Unfortunately, you're using an "operating system" that distinguishes between 
"text mode" and "binary mode".

use File.new( ARGV[0], "rb") instead.
-- 
Ned Konz
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