From: Joseph McDonald Date: 2001-11-21T05:19:42+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:25942] Re: Why the appended '\n' in IO.readlines Tuesday, November 20, 2001, 11:55:51 AM, you wrote: JF> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Ned Konz wrote: >> To avoid doing this, start vim with the -b (binary) flag. JF> I tried this, and still get 2 bytes. JF> vim -b t JF> "t" [New] 1L, 2C written JF> ls -l t JF> -rw-r--r-- 1 jfreeze sm 2 Nov 20 14:55 t To avoid this, start vim as so: emacs t ;-) -joe