From: W.L.Kleb@... (Bil Kleb)
Date: 2004-01-05T00:41:47+09:00
Subject: When did IO::read appear?

I wrote some code on a ruby 1.7.2 (2002-05-29) machine using
IO.read, but when I moved it to a ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24)
machine I got an exception,

 NameError: undefined method `read' for IO:Class

What's the idiomatic workaround for this sort of thing?

Thanks,
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Bil Kleb, NASA, Hampton, Virginia, USA