From: Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Date: 2011-04-20T02:12:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Telnet "More?"

On 19.04.2011 18:40, mouser wrote:
> On 19-Apr-2011, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Of course, if the question is really "why does Microsoft hang with a
>> 'More?' prompt when dir is issued a second time", then this isn't really
>> the right solution.
> 
> But I found that his code *does* work in 1.8.7 but not in 1.9.2, so it's not
> just Microsoft's fault.  It looked to me to be a difference in character
> encodings between the two versions of Ruby causing some issues with regex
> matching in the preprocess instance method.

Is it maybe a similar issue I faced with Sinatra recently [1]? In 1.9
strings coming over network are in ASCII-8BIT usually and you've to
convert them to char charset to work with them.

HTH,
- Markus

[1] http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/476119#989522