Re: implementation question about writing and reading from files

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3b6dc4ed@post.newsfeeds.com>, Francis Crick says...
>read a chunk of any size from any part of a file and write it into memory
>and pass back the pointer.
>
>write a chunk of any size into any part of any file.
>
>should I use streams?  If so, which stream components?  Also, whats the best
>format to keep a big bunch of bytes in memory?  Should that be a stream of
>some sort, or a big array or what?

I'd probably use streams for this, yes. See Tom Moran's message for the specific
calls. You could just use the stream attributes instead of Read and Write, but
that would create one I/O per byte, which can be rather slow.

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