From: Alan Davies <NOSPAMcs96and@...>
Date: 2003-05-21T22:37:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in IO#write under windows

In article <1053463150.2575.9.camel@tom.felker.net>, tcfelker@mtco.com 
says...
> By all means, but it's a bug in Windows, not Ruby.

I was about to disagree with you because I thought that the C runtime 
did not have this problem but is seems that it does indeed do the same 
thing...

"The fwrite function writes up to count items, of size length each, from 
buffer to the output stream. The file pointer associated with stream (if 
there is one) is incremented by the number of bytes actually written. If 
stream is opened in text mode, each carriage return is replaced with a 
carriage-return � linefeed pair. The replacement has no effect on the 
return value."

I have to agree that this is one of the more ridiculous "features" of 
DOS/Windows.  Its very legacy and there is no need for it any more, but 
I suppose that if they got rid of it, lots of stuff would break.