Issue #1081 has been updated by Roger Pack. > What do you think proper API for combined File.open? > > File::write(path, string, mode, opt) I also prefer this first way. File.write('hello.txt', 'some stuff') and default to mode 'wb' for all platforms Thanks for looking into this. It would be quite useful. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1081 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org