From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-12-18T10:33:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Binary-safe file IO

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Carl Youngblood wrote:

# 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
# 


Yes, it should be OK on all of those platforms.

Chad

# 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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