From: thomass@... (Thomas) Date: 2001-12-31T05:00:44+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:29755] subclassing IO I would like to subclass IO or create a class whose objects can be used instead of IO objects. IO has a lot of convenience methods (like readline, readlines, getc, gets etc.). Is there a IO-like class that I can use that provides all of these if I provide a basic read(numberOfBytes) function. It's for a play project of mine for reading zip files, that I'm using to learn ruby. Thanks, Thomas