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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Portable way to read/write from a binary file?
Date: 14 Sep 1994 22:39:25 GMT
Date: 1994-09-14T22:39:25+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <357u2t$ho8@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 355kao$38d@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au

Subject: Re: Portable way to read/write from a binary file?
From: Robert Dewar, dewar@cs.nyu.edu
Date: 13 Sep 1994 23:51:00 -0400
In article <355rv4$eg8@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> Robert Dewar, dewar@cs.nyu.edu writes:
>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>

Because I wanted a portable solution that wasn't tied to a particular
operating system. It may be that there are comparable routines on _all_
operating systems, but it still (potentially) leaves you with code to change
when porting.

Dale
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1994-09-14 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1994-09-14  1:40 Portable way to read/write from a binary file? Dale Stanbrough
1994-09-14  3:51 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-16  1:47   ` Lee_Robert_Willis
1994-09-14 22:39 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
1994-09-15 17:08   ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-16  5:00   ` R_Tim_Coslet
1994-09-19  2:59     ` Dale Stanbrough
1994-09-19 17:46       ` Bob Duff
1994-09-20 22:51       ` Dale Stanbrough
1994-09-15 22:59 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
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