From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2001-11-17T05:02:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25646] Re: Funky file.each_byte

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, 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
	[...]
>   count = 0
>   f = File.new( ARGV[0], "r")

Presumably you do want to count each and every byte, including 0x0a and
0x0d if they occur?  :-)

    f = File.new( ARGV[0], "rb")

Binary, not text.

>   f.each_byte do
>     count += 1
>   end
>   f.close

	Hugh