From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-01-12T18:18:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9188] Re: binmode?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:9178] binmode?"
    on 01/01/12, "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|What is IO#binmode for exactly? (Yes, I know it puts a
|stream in binary mode.) I notice that it's only for Windows...

IO#binmode put IO in binary mode only if there's such thing on the
platform, otherwise do nothing.

							matz.