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The additional features where inspired from Unix command line tools.

What is new in this release:

• The File.binary method now always returns false for images. It is meant to detect executables, shared objects, etc. Use File.image? to detect images.
• Encoding fixes for the File.image? method.

What is new in version 1.3.1:

• The File.binary method now always returns false for images. It is meant to detect executables, shared objects, etc. Use File.image? to detect images.
• Encoding fixes for the File.image? method.

What is new in version 1.1.8:

• Fixed some bad variable names that crept into the File.nl_convert method.
• Added the File.null_device alias for File.null.
• Added cygwin and mingw to Windows detection code.
• One of the nlconvert tests is now skipped on Windows.
• Two text files that were previously bundled as part of this library for testing purposes have been removed. Those are now dynamically generated within the tests themselves.
• Gemspec updates.
• Documentation updates.
• Added the :gem rake task.

Requirements:

• Ruby 1.8.0 or higher

Limitations:

• There is a bug in 1.6.x that can cause $ characters to accumulate when converting to DOS or MAC format if nl_convert is run multiple times on the same file.