From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-03-30T23:31:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with binary files in mswin ruby

Hi,

In message "Problem with binary files in mswin ruby"
    on 04/03/30, haldane <jbshaldane@hotmail.com> writes:

|The conclusion is that an IO stream cannot sucessfully be changed to
|binary mode after it has been tested for EOF (unless reset first with
|rewind).
|
|Is this expected behaviour?

eof? operation fills the internal stdio buffer before binary mode is
turned on.  In that case, turning on the flag is too late.

							matz.