Re: Image processing File I/O

[tmoran@bix.com]

>two features ... are the streams themselves, and 8-bit characters.
Pixels are presumably represented by something which might, or might
not, be 8 bits wide, but it certainly isn't a Character.  It's case
doesn't matter, and whether it's hardware representation can be
mistaken for a digit or a letter is irrelevant.
>stream IO is now quicker. (Earlier versions of
  This, as noted, is compiler and version dependent.  For instance,
one older version of an Ada 95 compiler used a 16 bit representation
for the base type of an 8 bit type, which could result in a really
screwed up file if you did pixel by pixel stream IO.  But pixel by
pixel IO is going to be terribly slow in any case - you almost
certainly want to do at least a row at a time, if not the entire
image as a single IO call.
  I would also request that any post over a 100 or so lines should
be labeled in the subject line as 'long' since not all of us are
running on free T1 lines.