From: nobu.nokada@... Date: 2002-07-04T06:32:05+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby and 8192 bytes Hi, At Thu, 4 Jul 2002 05:27:00 +0900, Todd Holloway wrote: > I have tried just using the "system" commands by themselves > and they seem to work just fine. I have also tried removing > the "system" commands and the local file is not shortened > to 8192 bytes. So, something is getting corrupted in between. Put $defout.flush (or $defout.close) before "system" commands. -- Nobu Nakada