From: jbshaldane@... (haldane)
Date: 2004-03-31T19:04:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with binary files in mswin ruby

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote in message news:<1080698181.804826.20335.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>...
> |Could the methods in Marshal check for this and raise an exception if
> |they fail to turn on binary mode? (At least on platforms where it
> |matters).
> 
> I'm not sure what you want exactly.  Making "binmode" to raise
> exception when internal buffer is already filled with text-mode
> contents?
> 

I think that this would probably be sane behaviour.  If you change to
binmode and there are characters in the internal buffer that have not
been read then I think an exception would be logical.

Stephen.
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