From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2010-06-24T08:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: marshalled data in 1.9

On Jun 23, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Roger Pack wrote:

> Is there the possibility this would fail in 1.9?
>
> big = eval(File.read("out_inspect.small"))
> File.open("out.marshal", "w") do |f|
>
>  f.write(Marshal.dump(big))
>
> end
> Marshal.load(File.open('out.marshal', 'r'))
>
>
> When I do this with large structures (on windows) I get messages like:
>
> bad.rb:7:in `load': dump format error for symbol(0x6c) (ArgumentError)
>
>
> irb(main):001:0> Encoding.default_external
> => #<Encoding:IBM437>
> irb(main):002:0> Encoding.default_internal
> => nil
>
> But I had assumed since I was reading and writing in the same mode it
> would work all right. Was I wrong?
> -r

You almost certainly want the 'rb' and 'wb' modes on Windows to read  
and write in binary, rather than text, mode.

-Rob

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