From: Ralph Mason <masonralph@...>
Date: 2002-06-18T16:39:29+09:00
Subject: Re: File Write bug - Ruby  mswin

Thanks matz,

You are exactly right - the string being written had a \n in it.

File.new ("wb") fixed the problem.

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:28 PM
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.