From: Jari Williamsson <jari.williamsson@...>
Date: 2007-11-10T00:15:41+09:00
Subject: File 'rb' on non-Windows

To open binary files, on Windows the statement:
File.new("myfile", "rb")
is required.

The docs just seem to say that the "b" is a Windows-only thing, not what 
happens on other platforms. Will the "b" flag just be filtered out on 
Linux/OS X?


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson