From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2007-12-02T10:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: how do I  IO.read the entire thing


From: "Aryk Grosz" <tennisbum2002@hotmail.com>
>
>I have a system command that im running using Popen. Im trying to read
> in the entire io result. IO.read needs a length argument to run.
> 
> How can I read it without knowing what the total length is?

Omit the length parameter.   (ri IO#read)

  everything = io.read


Regards,

Bill