ts wrote: >>>>>>"C" == Chris Morris <chrismo / clabs.org> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> > > try it with the `b' switch > Dang it - forgot about that *again*. Thanks for the reminder :-) Still don't know if that quells my rant. I assume that the default \n is used in memory at all times, and Ruby will handle the appropriate translation for *nix/Windows/Mac, freeing me from worrying over that? And the case I stumbled upon today was a leaky abstraction? -- Chris http://clabs.org/blogki