From: Greg Willits <lists@...>
Date: 2009-07-05T01:53:52+09:00
Subject: Re: file.seek and unused bytes

>>Does advancing the seek position intentionally and proactively fill
>>the unsed bytes with what apparently equates to zero? OR, am I just
>>getting lucky?

> you're getting lucky

Thanks, I figured as much (just thought I'd see if Ruby was any 
different). I've gone ahead and filled empty positions using 
string.ljust.

tail works fine. It's all text data with 10.chr EOLs, and yeah I would 
know whether a 0 is a valid piece of data or not based on the file 
format.

Thanks.
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