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From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@gmx.li>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Subject: Re: Zlib::GzipReader doesn't work as expected
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:53:15 +0200
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* Thomas Wolf <thomasw@viacanale.de> (10:57) schrieb:

> These files are "gzip"ed as follows:
> gzip < 5lines.txt > foo.gz
> gzip < more5lines.txt >> foo.gz

So you have two streams of gzipped data in foo.gz.

And the ruby library reads only the first one.

> How do I force Zlib::GzipReader do read the whole file?

I don't know, read the source.

mfg,                simon .... l