From: Travis Whitton <whitton@...>
Date: 2004-04-01T01:14:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange rubyzip behaviour (Errno::EFBIG)

> Travis, could you try something like this:
> 
> require 'zip/zip'
> 
> is = File.open("rubycode.zip", "rb")
> is.seek(5, IO::SEEK_SET)
> is.read

irb(main):002:0> require 'zip/zip'
.../zip/zip.rb:11: warning: already initialized constant Tempfile
=> true
irb(main):003:0> is = File.open("rubycode.zip", "rb")
=> #<File:rubycode.zip>
irb(main):004:0> is.seek(5, IO::SEEK_SET)
=> 0
irb(main):005:0> is.read
=> "\000\000\000\010\000\275..."

> Does that cause the problem? If it does, try without requiring
> 'zip/zip'.

Looks like it works fine.

> Rubyzip doesn't do anything too weird with the files, all it does is
> opening the archive file in "rb"-mode and seek-around and read a bit,
> which is what the code fragment above is intended to mimic.

I'll see if I can figure it out later when I have more time.

Thanks,
Travis