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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Portable way to read/write from a binary file?
Date: 13 Sep 1994 23:51:00 -0400
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Date: 1994-09-13T23:51:00-04:00
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sequential_io instantiated for a byte or character type may work, but is
not guaranteed, and may well be gruseomely slow.

best get is just to use pragma interface and use the appropriate unix
routines directly, whjy not>