From: Barry Shultz <barry_sh@...>
Date: 2003-06-28T18:33:48+09:00
Subject: Array#pack problem on OS X

Hi,
Could someone verify the incorrect values for Array#pack('S') and 
Array#pack('n') I'm getting on my OS X? See below, and thanks!

Barry
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On Win98:

C:\WINDOWS>ruby -v
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i586-mswin32]

irb(main):001:0> [65].pack('S')
"A\000"
irb(main):002:0> [65].pack('v')
"A\000"
irb(main):003:0> [65].pack('n')
"\000A"


On OS X:

bash-2.05a$ ruby -v
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [powerpc-darwin6.0]

irb(main):001:0> [65].pack('S')
"\000A"
irb(main):002:0> [65].pack('v')
"\000A"
irb(main):003:0> [65].pack('n')
"\000A"

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