From: Joey Gibson <joey@...>
Date: 2003-09-20T04:11:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble with binary files?

On 9/19/2003 3:00 PM, agemoagemo@yahoo.com wrote:

>I've never had this sort of problem working with text
>files. Is there something else I have to do to be able
>to work with binary data?
>
Are you on a Windows box and are you opening the file in binary mode? I had this same problem recently with the same results. The problem was a Ctrl-Z some way into the file that was being interpreted as EOF. The fix was to add a 'b' to the open flags:

File.open("foo.db", "rb") do ...

and then all was right with the world.

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