From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-03-12T12:34:29+09:00
Subject: gzip again...

I can't seem to process from within Ruby with gzip files that exceed a
certain (very) minimal size.


data = File.open('rdoc-alpha-c.tgz') {|f| f.read}

IO.popen('gzip -dc', 'w+') do |gz|
  gz.syswrite(data)
  gz.close_write
end


The above code just hangs everything.  From a console, gzip -dc
<filename> works just fine.  I'm clueless again and this time I'm not
sure it's something trivial. :-\  Any idea?

Massimiliano