From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-09-08T12:53:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Read files at the byte level - how to?

Hi,

At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:47:01 +0900,
RLMuller wrote:
> I want to use Ruby to compare two Zip files to test whether
> they are identical.  Accordingly, I want to read at the byte
> level, but I only see methods to read strings, i.e. gets,
> readline and readlines.

  require 'fileutils'
  FileUtils.cmp(file_a, file_b)

Or

  require 'ftools'
  File.cmp(file_a, file_b)

-- 
Nobu Nakada