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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Portable way to read/write from a binary file?
Date: 14 Sep 1994 22:39:25 GMT
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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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