From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-08-18T06:30:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Making File.open work on gzipped files

On 17.08.2010 20:56, Martin Hansen wrote:
> Thanks Brian,
>
> I did look at ruby's zlib and wondered why there is no method to check
> if a file is zipped or not - one could perhaps could fix something by
> rescuing the Zlib exception?

Exactly, just try to open with GzipReader and if that throws just work 
with the regular file which you have opened already.

> Looking at the docs there is a couple of TODOs. Perhaps this is another
> one.

What todo do you mean?

Cheers

	robert

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