From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-06-18T16:28:35+09:00
Subject: Re: File Write bug - Ruby  mswin

Hi,

In message "File Write bug - Ruby  mswin"
    on 02/06/18, "Ralph Mason" <masonralph@yahoo.com> writes:

|I have an application that generated a binary file.  It has always worked
|fine, however having recently switched to the mswin version of ruby I find
|that the application nolonger works correctly.  The problem is that
|file.write (or file.print) is printing an extra byte! (sometimes)

On Windows, you might need to open the file with binary mode.  Use
"rb" mode specifier.

							matz.