From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-11-08T02:08:46+09:00
Subject: Re: A Question About TCPSocket

Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:48:51 +0900, ??? wrote:
>>Hello,
>>    I create an object of TCPSocket. Now I can use method "write" to
>>send a string.
>>What method that I can send a file using TCPSocket?

> Well, in Ruby terms, a file is just a string -- once it's read in.

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> There's no reason that you can't end up treating the TCPSocket the 
> same way.

Well, and in TCP terms, a stream is a stream, whether it was created from
a (Ruby) string or from a file.  If the intention is to transfer a file
using TCP then it is much better and easier to use a Ruby library of FTP
instead of reinventing the wheel (well, at least FTP opens two TCP 
connections, one for data channel and one for control channel).

Regards,

Bill