Re: Advice on low level file handling.

[Michael Paus <pausnospam@nospamib-paus.com>]

Peter C. Chapin wrote:

> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in
> news:R_adnVLVrp7jUazZRVn-rw@megapath.net: 

> On the other hand, it might make sense to define a suitable record type 
> that has the necessary fields already specified in the right places and 
> then just read a chunk of the file into such a record. However, part of 
> the file needs to be uninterpreted data---it's not a file of records---
> so this approach may not work out well either.

That's exactly what Stream_IO is made for. The big advantage of Stream_IO
is that you can read mixed types from a single stream. So you can read
pre-defined record types and uninterpreted data (bytes) just as you like.

Michael