One can of course call .binmode immediately after creating
the tempfile, but doesn’t binary by default make more sense
in the case of a temporary
file?If it’s too late to change the default behaviour, then perhaps
tempfile.new should accept a flag parameter?
This and IO.readlines both. 
Regards,
Dan
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