From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-08-18T23:05:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Making File.open work on gzipped files

2010/8/18 Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>:
> Martin Hansen wrote:
>> Thanks Brian and Robert. The below snippet appears to be working nicely
>> - though I am not sure that the file is closed if zipped?
>
> Good question, but the documentation for GzipReader#close gives you the
> answer:
>
> "Closes the GzipFile object. This method calls close method of the
> associated IO object. Returns the associated IO object."

That's why I suggested my item 1. :-)

Cheers

robert

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