From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-03-13T02:04:17+09:00
Subject: Re: gzip again...

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:30:40PM +0900, ts wrote:
> M> IO.popen('gzip -dc', 'w+') do |gz|
> M>   gz.syswrite(data)
> M>   gz.close_write
> M> end
>  What do you want to do with 'w+' ?

Write to it the data to be uncompressed and read the uncompressed data
back.

> M> The above code just hangs everything.  From a console, gzip -dc
> M> <filename> works just fine.
>  gz is open read/write, and it block for this reason

It will send the uncompressed data to the console if open in write
only.  Is there no way to accomplish this?

Massimiliano