From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T16:58:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Binary data, command output, and Ruby

From: Phrogz [mailto:phrogz@mac.com] 
# OK, so this has nothing to do with reading files 
# from disk. The crazy thing is that it isn't even 
# deterministic! See the following:
# <snip>
#...
# What is going on here?!

can't help you there, but mine has a different yet consistent output...

C:\family\ruby>type put_bytes.rb
print (0..12000).map{ |i| ((i % 255) + 1).chr }.join
$stdout.flush
sleep 1
$stdout.flush

C:\family\ruby>type get_bytes.rb
p `ruby put_bytes.rb`.length

C:\family\ruby>type multi_get.bat
@echo off
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb
ruby get_bytes.rb

C:\family\ruby> multi_get.bat
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348
348

C:\family\ruby>ver

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

C:\family\ruby>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-23 patchlevel 110) [i386-mswin32]

maybe we differ on the patchlevel?

kind regards -botp