From: Bazsl <hs@...>
Date: 2007-10-15T08:46:14+09:00
Subject: Piping binary files

I want to pipe a binary file through a Ruby script. I have tried

while (b = STDIN.getc)
  STDOUT.putc(b)
end

and it works with text files but corrupts an mp3 file. STDIN.binmode did 
not help. I can't find read and write methods of the IO class that work 
with binary files. What am I missing? Thanks.