On Friday 02 August 2002 11:51 am, MaurùÄio wrote: > Just to report, I have a similar problem: on my system (Ruby > 1.66, pragmatic programmers ruby install for Windows), openning a > 4Mb file takes between half a minute and 40 seconds using File.read > (not File.readline). This is a file on your local disk? -- Ned Konz http://bike-nomad.com GPG key ID: BEEA7EFE