From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2002-03-26T01:59:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby -n -e doesn't find things ...

I believe the problem is that the file contains binary characters. When I write
the loop in a little Ruby program it fails the same way when I open the file "r"
and works if I open it "rb".

It seems to me that looking for the EOF character was deprecated in Windows
sometime around 1913. You're supposed to use the file size, which I would guess
is what's happening in the "rb" mode.

Should I be reporting this as a bug? 

B, is there a way to tell Ruby to open the files in binary mode when doing a one
liner from the command line, i.e. with -n or -p?

Thanks!

Ronald E Jeffries
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