Mauricio FernáÏdez <batsman.geo / yahoo.com> writes:

> On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 05:00:33PM +0900, Mauricio FernáÏdez wrote:
>> I'm told that this doesn't download the file correctly under windows
>> (only a few KB are dled). On visual inspection, the associated Tempfile
>> is not complete either, so the same behavior is observed when using
>> is.gets(nil) or a loop with eof?.
>
> The bug has been traced back to Tempfile, which doesn't use the binary
> mode for the underlying file. IMHO it should since the tempfile isn't
> meant to be seen by other processes, so CRLF translation (and other
> oddities such as ETB) makes no sense.

P.S. I frequently use Tempfile as a way to place stuff in a file that
is read by an external command.  In those cases, end of line
translation does make sense.

-- 
matt