From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2003-12-18T10:31:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Binary-safe file IO

Is this only applicable to Windows then?  I happened to be on Windows at 
the time, but I'm developing this application cross-platform and testing 
it on Windows, linux and OS X.  Will this code still work on other 
platforms?

Thanks,
Carl

Hal Fulton wrote:
> Carl Youngblood wrote:
> 
>> Hi, I'm trying to embed a binary file inside a ruby script but I'm 
>> having trouble.  To test it out, I wrote a simple script that will 
>> take a binary file and encode it to base64 and then decode it again 
>> and write out the result.  Here it is:
>>
>> require 'base64'
>> bindata = File.open('oldbinfile').read
>> File.open('newbinfile', 'w') do |f|
>>     f.write decode64(encode64(bindata))
>> end
>>
>> When I run this, newbinfile is not identical to oldbinfile anymore. 
>> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?  I'm assuming that the File IO 
>> functions are not binary safe, but what should I use instead?
> 
> 
> Are you on Windows? If so, 'wb' as a mode might help (binary mode).
> 
> Hal
> 
> 
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